Alexandre Dumas: A BBC Radio Collection - Alexandre Dumas, Lucy Catherine

Written by Alexandre Dumas, Lucy Catherine
Read by Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Dramatization

Three dramas by Alexandre Dumas and a Musketeers spin-off by Lucy Catherine.

This torrent collects together and updates three older torrents which I will delete.

Contains:-

‘Georges’, ‘The Three Musketeers’ and ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ by Dumas & series 1 and 2 of ‘Milady’ by Lucy Catherine. Also included is a documentary about Dumas.

‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘Milady’ are higher bitrates than the old torrents & ‘Milady’ gains this year’s second series.

Source for recordings BBC iPlayer’s 320kbps downloads. Edited & reencoded to remove station announcers.

GEORGES

It is the early nineteenth century. Georges is the young son of wealthy planter Pierre Munier on the slave colony of the Isle de France. The family is ‘mixed race’, but they are shunned by the other plantation owners as racially inferior.

The island is soon under threat from the British, and the Munier family are ready to join the inhabitants and defend the colony. But will the ‘Whites’ allow them to? What transpires seeds Georges hatred of the plantation owners and fuels his future revenge.

Georges/The Writer ….. Jamael Westman
Pierre/Dumas ….. Peter Landi
Laiza/Young Jacques ….. Darragh Hand
Jacques ….. Testament
James/Telemaque/Antonio ….. Adetomiwa Edun
Malmedie ….. David Acton
Henri ….. Samuel James
Sarah ….. Kymberley Cochrane
Murray ….. Ewan Bailey
Mika-Mika ….. Chike Chan
Young Georges ….. Rayyan Chihi
Young Henri ….. Zac Barker

Production Co-ordinator - Vicky Moseley
Tech Team - Keith Graham, Ann Bunting, Alison Craig
Sound Design - Sharon Hughes

Director/Producer Gary Brown

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

‘All for one and one for all’

17th Century France. Dashing young swordsman D’Artagnan heads for Paris, dreaming of serving the King as a member of his elite guard. On arrival, he meets the three musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - and the four men soon become fast friends.

Together, they strive to outwit the murderous schemes of power-hungry Cardinal Richelieu, and save the Queen from a plot to dishonour her.

Their adventures take them on a perilous journey through the French countryside and across the Channel to England….

A six-part dramatisation by James Saunders.

Narrator – John Rowe
D’Artagnan – Jamie Glover
Athos – Robert Glenister
Porthos – Timothy Spall
Aramis – Anton Lesser
King – Nicholas Boulton
Queen – Teresa Gallagher
Cardinal Richelieu – Julian Glover
Milady de Winter – Imelda Staunton
Lord de Winter – Gareth Armstrong
D’Artagnan’s father – James Taylor
Jussac/Des Essarts – David Jarvis
De Treville – Malcolm Ward
Planchet – Dominic Letts
Bonacieux – Norman Bird
Musketeer/Rochefort – Michael Onslow
Madame Bonacieux – Helena Breck
Duke of Buckingham – Michael Cochrane
Magistrate – John Evitts
Warder/Grimaud – Tom Bevan
Bazin – David Rowan
De Wardes – Kim Wall
Felton – Lyndam Gregory

With Rachel Atkins, Nicholas Murchie, Peter Kenny, Frances Jeater and Stuart Organ

Produced and directed by Martin Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1994.

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

Marseilles, 1815. Nineteen-year-old seaman Edmond Dantès is engaged to the beautiful Mercédès and about to be promoted to Captain. But his luck runs out when three acquaintances betray him, and he is condemned to fourteen years’ solitary confinement in the Chateau D’If. Escaping the notorious prison, Dantès plots his enemies’ destruction. His revenge will prove devastating…

Adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas first published in 1846.

Edmond Dantes – Iain Glen
Haydee – Jane Lapotaire
Abbe Faria – Richard Johnson
Monsieur Morrell/Operator – Robert Blythe
Danglars – Toby Jones
Fernand de Morcerf – Zubin Varla
Caderousse – Ben Crowe
Jacopo – Joe Sims
Captain Patin – Patrick Brennan
Albert de Morcerf/Antoine/Andrea Cavalcanti – Will Howard
Claude/Coachman/Bertuccio/Banker – Paul Stonehouse
Max Morrell – Adam Nagaitis
Mathilde– Liza Sadovy
Julie Morrell/Eugenie Danglars – Eleanor Crooks
Younger Haydee – Amber Rose Revah
Gerard de Villefort – Paul Rhys
Mercédès de Morcerf – Josette Simon
Heloise de Villefort – Kate Fleetwood
General Noirtier – Karl Johnson
Hermine Danglars – Stephanie Racine
Valentine de Villefort – Lizzy Watts
Madame Lascelles/Actor – Sarah Thom
Edourd de Villefort – Finn Monteath

Dramatised in four parts by Sebastian Baczkiewicz.

Directors: Jeremy Mortimer / Sasha Yevtushenko.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.

MILADY by Lucy Catherine

The origin story of Milady de Winter, one of the greatest villains of classic fiction.

Created by Alexandre Dumas, Milady is one of D’Artagnan & Co’s fiercest and most memorable adversaries in The Three Musketeers.

Over the years, she has become an iconic femme fatale, not least because of the many portrayals by stars including Lana Turner, Faye Dunaway and Eva Green.

In this original, four-part drama, we tell Milady’s genesis story, charting her rise from spirited provincial teenager to deadly political operative in 17th century Paris and London.

Milady ….. Anjana Vasan/Selin Hizli
Cardinal Richelieu ….. Carl Prekopp
D’Artagnan ….. Ian Dunnett Jnr
Comte De La Fere/Athos ….. Sam Troughton
De Winter ….. Joe Kloska
Father Laurent ….. Luke Nunn
The Comtesse ….. Elizabeth Counsell
Marie Therese ….. Rhiannon Neads
Rochefort ….. Don Gilet
Jailer ….. Shaun Mason
Baron Sheffield ….. Gerard McDermott
Buckingham ….. Ryan Whittle
Comtesse ….. Jasmine Hyde
Priest/King Louis ….. Chris Lew Kum Hoi
Marie de Medici ….. Hattie Morahan
Abbé/Ross ….. Simon Scardifield
Gaston ….. Josh Bryant-Jones

Directors: Ben Hollands and Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast 2023 (Series 1) & 2026 (Series 2)