A Passage to India
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

Oh wow... did I not see this coming! First published in 1924 and set in India in the 1920s the time when the British Raj was under observation, critique and ultimately the threat of the Indian Independence Movement, this drama centred around a woman seeking a more fulfilling life in India as she see......more

Collision of cultures… Clash of religions… Conflict of interests… An old mother comes to visit her son who is the City Magistrate in India… Everything seems to be new and mysterious to her… She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moo......more

In a rather ironic piece of narration, E.M. Forster sums up my opinion of this book perfectly: “Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.......more

A Passage to India seems a bolder statement on Colonialism and racism than ever. The Indians are thoughtful and droll, speaking about the trouble making friends with Englishmen, who become less personable the longer they are in India. The British seem to a man all about keeping the Indian down, of h......more

Adela Quested a plain looking young , affable and naive English school teacher travels to distant India in the early 1920's accompanied by the elderly , kind Mrs. Moore (maybe her future mother-in-law) a widow twice and see the real country, more important to decide if she will marry Mrs. Moore's so......more