Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years & The Amateur Marriage: Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Fascinating BBC radio adaptations of three of Anne Tyler’s bestselling books

Award-winning author Anne Tyler is loved worldwide for her fiction exploring the intricacies of marriage and domesticity. These three acclaimed books, each set in Baltimore, describe the small triumphs and tragedies of everyday American family members life, as associations are made and damaged, and families get together, drift aside, hurt and heal each other.

Dinner in the Homesick Cafe (Monitors 1 and 2)

Abandoned by about Anne Tyler: Dinner on the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years & The Amateur Marriage: Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations her salesman partner, Pearl Tull attempts to keep her family together – but her anger and brutal maternal energy provides damaging effects on her behalf three children.

Ladder of Years (Songs 3 and 4)

An unexpected romantic encounter in the grocery store aisle is the beginning of a new adventure for homely Delia Grinstead, leading her to make a sudden, impulsive modification in her existence.

The Amateur Relationship (Monitors 5 and 6)

We follow the turbulent relationship of Michael and Pauline Anton more than sixty years, from their whirlwind love in 1941, to relationship, parenthood and beyond.

Multi-layered and general, with information that ring sharply accurate and characters that are both recognisable and entertaining, these three dramatisations include a distinguished cast including Barbara Barnes, Lorelei King and Nathan Osgood.

Dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Produced and aimed by David Hunter

Dinner in the Homesick Restaurant

Pearl…Barbara Barnes

Narrator…Lorelei King

Beck…Nathan Osgood

Young Cody…Utmost Baldry

Young Ezra…Richard Linnell

Youthful Jenny/Jane…Eloise Webb

Cody…Ben Crowe

Ezra…Simon Lee Phillips

Jenny…Fenella Woolgar