Hay Fever (Classic Radio Theatre)

Name: Hay Fever (Classic Radio Theatre)
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Noël Coward
ISBN: 9781408485248

Author: Noël Coward

Narrator: Full Cast, Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Britton

Unabridged: 1 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BBC Digital Audio

Published: 03/01/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Radio

Synopsis

Judith Bliss is a famous actress who, after a string of successful roles, has retired to her country retreat. Missing the adulation of her public, she has has invited a fan over for a weekend of uninterrupted adoration - unaware that the rest of her family has company arriving too. Hoping for a delightful weekend, the four unwitting visitors are subjected to the full force of the Bliss’s theatrical lifestyle... Noël Coward’s sparkling comedy features a stellar cast including Millicent Martin, Maurice Denham and Julia Foster. This recording was first issued on cassette in 1988.

About Noel Coward

Noel Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933), and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and This Happy Breed (1942). In the fifties he started a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), two volumes of autobiography, and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964), and Bon Voyage (l967). Coward was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

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