A Room with a View
Written by E.M. Forster
Narrated by Rosalind Ayres, Edita Brychta, Alastair James Murden and
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About this audiobook
In this original adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel, an encounter in Florence and an offer to exchange rooms brings George Emerson to the attention of Lucy Honeychurch. Their flirtation is cut short by Lucy’s chaperone, but when they meet again back home in England, Lucy must negotiate the demands of her station with the desires of her heart.
Includes an interview with Julian Sands.
Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in March, 2019.
Adapted and Directed by Kate McAll
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Rosalind Ayres as Charlotte Bartlett
Edita Brychta as Mrs. Honeychurch, Miss Lavish, Signora
Alastair James Murden as Freddy Honeychurch, Guide, Italian Driver
Moira Quirk as Miss Catherine Alan, Miss Teresa Alan, Maid
Darren Richardson as Mr. Beebe and Sir Harry
Julian Sands as Mr. Emerson
Eugene Simon as George Emerson
Eleanor Tomlinson as Lucy Honeychurch
Matthew Wolf as Cecil Vyse, Shopkeeper, English Driver
Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson
Sound Designer, Recording and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Brian Wallace
Production Manager: Jessie Vachiano
Editor: Julian Nicholson
E.M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, short story writer and essayist best known for his books A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India. Born in London as the only child to parents Edward and Lily Forster, Edward inherited a considerable sum of money from his paternal great-aunt that allowed him to embark on a career as a writer. He attended Tonbridge School in Kent but did not enjoy his time there. He then went to King's College in Cambridge where he joined a secret society known as the Apostles, several members of which later helped form the Bloomsbury Group, a literary/philosophical society that boasted such early members as Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes and Vanessa Bell. Upon graduation, Forster went abroad - often escorted by his mother - and wrote of his travels extensively. Upon his return, he set up residence in Weybridge, Surrey where he would write all six of his novels. All of his books were written between 1908 and 1924 and his last, A Passage to India, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Forster was a homosexual and while he never married, he did have several affairs with male lovers during his lifetime, including a forty-year romance with married policeman Bob Buckingham, at whose home he collapsed and died at age 91 of a stroke. Forster explored his struggle with his own sexuality in his book Maurice. Forster was extremely critical of American foreign policy during his lifetime and rebuffed efforts to film adaptations of his novels due to the fact that the productions would likely use American financing. After his death, however, several of his books were made into films and three of them - A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India are among the most highly regarded films of the late 20th century.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this adaptation. Well-acted, smart, timely. Also includes an interview with the late Julian Sands that was fascinating.