BBC 3 Radio Drama performed by the Renaissance Theatre Company.
Cast in order of speaking:
Kent - Keith Michel Cloucester - Richard Briers Edmund - Kenneth Branagh Lear - John Gielgud Goneril - Judi Dench Cordelia - Emma Thompson Regan - Eileen Atkins Albany - John Shrapnel Cornwall - Robert Stephens Burgundy - Denis Quilley France - Derek Jacobi Edgar - Iain Glen Oswald - Bod Hoskins Knight - Simon Russell Beale Fool - Michael Williams First Gentleman - Nickolas Grace Curan - Sam Dastor Servant - Harry Towb Old Man - Maurice Denham First Messenger - Bernard Cribbins Second Gentleman - Matthew Morgan Second Messenger - Nicholas Boulton Captain - Sam Dastor Herald - Peter Hall
Yes, excellent. This is good. Can always count on @runecestershire.
…the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which in the season is animated with bathing-machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the stranger’s eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
…these places must be visited, and visited again to make the worth of Lyme understood.