Jane Eyre: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Audiobook (Free)

Amanda Hale and Tom Burke superstar in a whole new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved book, adapted by Rachel Joyce.

Orphan Jane learns young that self-control is the surest method of retaining self-respect in adversity. It really is a lesson that serves her well in the years ahead as she endures the misery of existence with her cruel, uncaring aunt, followed by the harsh program at Lowood Institution, a charity school for poor kids.

After taking the post of about Jane Eyre: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation governess at Thornfield Hall, she meets the master of the home, the brooding, enigmatic Edward Rochester, and finds herself falling deeply in love with him. It seems as if joy may finally become within her understand – but a series of strange events leads her to believe that Rochester can be concealing a dark secret. When the simple truth is revealed, the heartbroken Jane will require all her internal power and resilience to handle up to it…

Dramatised for radio by bestselling novelist Rachel Joyce (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry), this iconic love story stars Amanda Hale as Jane and Tom Burke as Rochester. Suffused with romance, passion, mystery and danger, it is a spellbinding story that is as genuine and relevant today as when it was first published in 1847.

Length of time: 2 hours 30 mins approx.