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(BBCDrama have been doing some adaptations of centuries old works that actually have very contemporary issues -- this one is like listening to scambuster cautionary tales)
Episode Six
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Episode 6 of 10A classic comic novel from the 18th century.
Life is good to the Reverend Dr Primrose, in his idyllic country parsonage, surrounded by his beloved family. But then his world unravels in a series of misfortunes and calamities.
Episode 6
Dr Primrose is briefly reunited with his son George, before continuing his search for Olivia.Oliver Goldsmith was born in Ireland in 1728. The Vicar of Wakefield was published in 1766. An essayist, dramatist and poet, his other works include the play She Stoops To Conquer and the poem An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. He died in 1774.
Writer: Oliver Goldsmith
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Reader: Edmund Kingsley
Producer: Jeremy OsborneA Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4
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(BBCDrama have been doing some adaptations of centuries old works that actually have very contemporary issues -- this one is like listening to scambuster cautionary tales)
Episode Six
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Episode 6 of 10A classic comic novel from the 18th century.
Life is good to the Reverend Dr Primrose, in his idyllic country parsonage, surrounded by his beloved family. But then his world unravels in a series of misfortunes and calamities.
Episode 6
Dr Primrose is briefly reunited with his son George, before continuing his search for Olivia.Oliver Goldsmith was born in Ireland in 1728. The Vicar of Wakefield was published in 1766. An essayist, dramatist and poet, his other works include the play She Stoops To Conquer and the poem An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. He died in 1774.
Writer: Oliver Goldsmith
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Reader: Edmund Kingsley
Producer: Jeremy OsborneA Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4