Wuthering Heights [reading]

First broadcast from 19981113 to 19990108. (* = BBC7).

Paul McGann reads Emily Bronte's tale of a passionate and ultimately destructive love affair.

 
 
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0119981113* 20040129Mr Lockwood, Heathcliffe's new tenant, visits his landlord at Wuthering Heights for the first time.
0219981120* 20040130After a disturbing night at Wuthering Heights, Mr Lockwood asks his housekeeper to tell him about Heathcliff's childhood.
0319981127 Edgar Linton has fallen in love with Cathy, but her feelings for him are ambivalent.
0419981204* 20040203, * 20040204When Heathcliff returns after three years absence, he finds Cathy married to Edgar, and sets about using Edgar's sister Isabella to exact his revenge.
0519981211* 20040205Heathcliffe has married Isabella. Catherine, meanwhile, is on her deathbed and is about to give birth to Edgar's child.
061998121820040205, 20040206Heathcliffe has become the master of Wuthering Heights. There, he imprisons Mrs Dean and Cathy in order to force the young girl into marrying his ailing son, Linton.
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07 LAST19990108* 20040206, * 20040207Mrs Dean relates the final details of Heathcliffe's plot of revenge on his old enemies Hindley Earnshaw and Edgar Linton.