BBC R4 - Thomas Love Peacock's 'Nightmare Abbey' (Reading)

Abridged into eight parts by Martin Remes

Read by Kenneth Williams - at the peak of his powers

Produced by Martin Remes

Originally broadcast November 5 to 14, 1979

This recording made in 2018 from BBC R4 Extra broadcasts

Coded from a digital source at 160/44.1



Kenneth Williams reads Peacock's Gothic satire poking fun at the

romantic movement's obsession with the morbid - in a particular it

teases poets Shelly [Scythorp] and Coleridge [Dr. Flosky].

_______________________

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Abbey



There's another of Peacock's satires at:

https://torrentgalaxy.to/torrent/15809024/BBC-R4-Production---Thomas-Love-Peacock-amp--039-s--amp--039-Headlong-Hall-amp--039-