Romeo and Juliet: A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation Audiobook (Free)

A full-cast BBC Radio 3 production of Shakespeare’s quick-witted summer months tragedy.

Inside a town full of hatred, where in fact the streets ring using the Capulet/Montague feud, and swords are too quickly drawn, Romeo and Juliet discover one another – and love – and never let go.

In Shakespeare’s famous play, first performed in 1595, the warring Capulets and Montagues have been sworn to keep carefully the peace on pain of death. When Capulet’s girl Juliet matches Montague’s child Romeo at a masked ball, they instantly fall in like.

With the help of Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s Nurse, the pair opt to marry in secret. Catastrophe hits when Romeo is usually banished for murder, and flees after just one single night with his new wife. Juliet, in the meantime, is betrothed against her wants to Count number Paris. Friar Lawrence intervenes to help, but tragedy is at hand…

Rising youthful stars Trystan Gravelle and Vanessa Kirby enjoy the star-crossed lovers, with David Tennant as Prince Escalus, Rosie Cavaliero as the Nurse and Ron Cook as Friar Lawrence.