Jamaica Inn: 1996 BBC Radio Drama - Daphne du Maurier torrent

Category: Adults, Full Cast, Radio Productions, Suspense
Language: EnglishKeywords: Daphne du Maurier Jamaica Inn
Written by Daphne du Maurier
Read by Susannah Corbett, John Woodvine, Auriol Smith, Mark Straker, full cast
Format: M4B
Dramatization
A BBC Radio adaptation by Michael Bakewell of Daphne du Maurier’s classic 1936 gothic suspense novel. This is an omnibus edition that combines the four episodes into one, removing the credits and introductions between each episode.
The year is 1815. After her parents’ deaths, Mary Yellan has been forced to sell her family’s farm and move to Cornwall to stay with her Aunt Patience and her aunt’s husband Joss Merlyn, the owners and proprietors of the gloomy and threatening Jamaica Inn…an inn with no guests and an unsavory reputation; also, her formerly-lively aunt is now merely a shadow of her former self and her uncle is a drunken bully.
Soon after her arrival, Mary quickly finds out that the inn is mistrusted by the local population and that her uncle may be closely involved with a group of suspicious men who may be “wreckers” - men who lure ships into crashing on the rocks along the coast so that their cargoes may be looted…and their crews murdered.
Mary soon becomes involved in a world where it becomes difficult to know whom to trust and where what she thinks she knows may not be true…and may succeed in getting her killed…
Mary Yellan … Susannah Corbett
Joss Merlyn … John Woodvine
Aunt Patience … Auriol Smith
Jem Merlyn … Mark Straker
The Reverend Frances Davey … James Laurenson
Squire Bassat … Vincent Brinble
Woman in coach/Mrs. Bassat … Anne Jameson
Mrs. Yellan … Joanna Wake
Harry the Pedlar … John Hartley
Driver/Stable Keeper/Scobell … Eric Allan
Coach Driver … John Church
Old Man in coach … Ronald Herdman
Richards … Sean Arnold
Lawyer Clerk/3rd Wrecker … Robert Portal
Idiot/1st Horse Dealer … Alan Barker
2nd Horse Dealer/1st Wrecker … Peter Gunn
James … Andrew Wincott
Hannah … Katherine Parr
Boy … Emma Fielding
Coachman … Brett Usher
2nd Wrecker/Militia Man … Matthew Sim
Directed by Enyd Williams
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 23 November - 14 December 1991
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A BBC Radio adaptation by Michael Bakewell of Daphne du Maurier’s classic 1936 gothic suspense novel. This is an omnibus edition that combines the four episodes into one, removing the credits and introductions between each episode.

The year is 1815. After her parents’ deaths, Mary Yellan has been forced to sell her family’s farm and move to Cornwall to stay with her Aunt Patience and her aunt’s husband Joss Merlyn, the owners and proprietors of the gloomy and threatening Jamaica Inn…an inn with no guests and an unsavory reputation; also, her formerly-lively aunt is now merely a shadow of her former self and her uncle is a drunken bully.

Soon after her arrival, Mary quickly finds out that the inn is mistrusted by the local population and that her uncle may be closely involved with a group of suspicious men who may be “wreckers” - men who lure ships into crashing on the rocks along the coast so that their cargoes may be looted…and their crews murdered.

Mary soon becomes involved in a world where it becomes difficult to know whom to trust and where what she thinks she knows may not be true…and may succeed in getting her killed…

Mary Yellan … Susannah Corbett
Joss Merlyn … John Woodvine
Aunt Patience … Auriol Smith
Jem Merlyn … Mark Straker
The Reverend Frances Davey … James Laurenson
Squire Bassat … Vincent Brinble
Woman in coach/Mrs. Bassat … Anne Jameson
Mrs. Yellan … Joanna Wake
Harry the Pedlar … John Hartley
Driver/Stable Keeper/Scobell … Eric Allan
Coach Driver … John Church
Old Man in coach … Ronald Herdman
Richards … Sean Arnold
Lawyer Clerk/3rd Wrecker … Robert Portal
Idiot/1st Horse Dealer … Alan Barker
2nd Horse Dealer/1st Wrecker … Peter Gunn
James … Andrew Wincott
Hannah … Katherine Parr
Boy … Emma Fielding
Coachman … Brett Usher
2nd Wrecker/Militia Man … Matthew Sim

Directed by Enyd Williams

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 23 November - 14 December 1991

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A Note on Audio Metadata

One of my frustrations with the audio content I download from ABB is the amount of time I always need to spend fixing the metadata and adding cover art to make it work nicely with Plex/Prologue. With that in mind, all audio content I share on ABB will always have complete and correct metadata, including:

- Author and Title
- Description (using the DESCRIPTION field read that can read by Plex)
- Narrator (using the COMPOSER field which can be read by Prologue)
- Genre Tags (I add all relevant Genres typically taken from Goodreads. These can be used to create smart collections in Plex.)
- Cover Art (I always use the highest resolution image I can find. Where none exists, I will find a suitable image from the internet - often r/audiobookcovers - or create one based on existing artwork.

Furthermore, the audio will always be in m4b format (to support chapter markers and ensure Plex can read the Description tag). The audio will always be correctly chapterized, where necessary, and chapter markers will be correctly named.

This means that all content I share here can be considered Plex/Prologue-ready with all metadata and artwork included. I hope this encourages others to do the same.

(FYI: I typically add metadata using kid3 and chapter markers using Ocenaudio.)