[Hardy-l] Tess BBC

[Rosemarie Morgan]

My thanks too,  for the help with access Bob. I enjoyed the short bit I 
heard (it lulled me to sleep!) -- except that the regional accents seemed 
overdetermined -- forgetful, I suppose, that Tess spoke Standard School 
English outside the home .  I agree with Paul -- the dramatic dialogue 
worked well to evoke the action but it also made me aware, with a profound 
sense of something important missing, that Hardy's narrator was absent -- 
who makes it all come vividly alive. Atmosphere, emotional undercurrents 
and so on were nowhere palpable as they are in the novel and the absence of 
setting (Oh! the importance of Hardy's "external correlatives") was a huge 
loss. But I must listen again. Perhaps the production employs music to help 
overcome these lacking elements ?
Cheers
Rosemarie
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>   I'd thought that radio drama was a lost art, but it's nice to hear that 
> it's alive and well in the UK.  I only listened to a bit of it, but I 
> enjoyed the way the dialogue manages to evoke the action--"Dance with me, 
> Tess--you're the best 'man' here!"
>
>Paul Niemeyer