Find The Raj Quartet: The Jewel In The Crown / The Day Of The Scorpion / The Towers Of Silence / A Division Of The Spoils: A BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation Authored By Paul Scott Document

Benedict Cumberbatch lol Fabulous dramatisation listened to as a warm up to reading the books.
. . which are a bit daunting! An epic fullcast dramatisation of Paul Scotts classic series of novels charting the last days ofthe British Raj.


Spanning the years fromto, this landmark saga explores the relationships between an array of soldiers and civilians stationedin India, as the sun sets on British colonial rule.


As The Jewel in the Crown opens, World War II is at its height and Gandhi is calling for the

British to leave.
When Daphne Manners arrives in Mayapore, she meets two men who will change her life: Hari Kumar and Ronald Merrick.
She begins to fall for Hari, but Ronald Merrick the local police superintendent becomes infatuated with her and seethes with hatred for Hari.


The Day of the Scorpion finds Merrick worming his way into the Layton family, and his treatment of Hari Kumar is revealed.
In The Towers of Silence, it is summer, and as the war ends Mabel Laytons companion Barbie Batchelor is forced to leave her home in Pankot.
In A Division of the Spoils, Sergeant Guy Perron arrives to witness Indias independence, while the Laytons plan for their future but the division of the country will spark tragic consequences for many.


The extensive,tudded cast includes Anna Maxwell Martin Bleak House, Motherland, Prasanna Puwanarajah Doctor Foster, Geraldine James who also starred in the film of The Jewel in the Crown, Mark Bazeley Broadchurch, Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock, Kulvinder Ghir Goodness Gracious Me and Nina Wadia Eastenders.


Duration:hours approx, A rich and satisfying dramatization of Scott's epic kept me enthralled throughout, The stories of the British in India during WWwrap around each other over time like a snake the tightly knit "community" hold secrets, confront racial and class conflict, and are themselves conflicted by hatred and mistrust.
Details are conveyed sometimes by exposition, and very often by excellent sound effects I could visualize exactly what was happening.
Awesome. I am simply hooked on these BBC dramatised versions of audio books, I love the whole radio play vibe with actual ambient sounds, a full cast and authentic accents.
There are so many amazing books that I feel I will never end up reading because of their size and also because there is so much new to read.
The trials of a reader, am I right!!

This adaptation is of four books that span a period fromtoand is based on the British in India.
When the series begins WWII is at its peak and Gandhi was beginning his Quit India Movement demanding the end of the British Rule in India.
It follows the end of the war, the partition of Pakistan and India and the transition to the Independence of both nations from the British.


There are tales of love, relationships, tragedy, violence and regret amongst the stories that follow the lives of some of the British families and soldiers who were living here at the time.
So many of these were ordinary people with no malice or disdain for the Indians and in fact considered many as friends.
The consequences of the those years led to heartbreak on all sides,

What a lovely series of books, It was enlightening to hear about that period in Indian history from the average British persons perspective.
Especially the way it has been done for this adaptation with a stellar cast including my favourite Benedict Cumberbatch Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
sitelink See this thread for information, Paul Scott was born in London in, He served in the army fromto, mainly in India and Malaya, He is the author of thirteen distinguished novels including his famous The Raj Quartet, In, Staying On won the Booker Prize, Paul Scott died in. Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Paul Scott was born in London in, He served in the army fromto, mainly in India and Malaya, He is the author of thirteen distinguished novels including his famous The Raj Quartet, In, Staying On won the Booker Prize, Paul Scott died in. sitelink.