The Greatcoat

Episode 1

The Greatcoat
Radio Times
Review by:
Jack Seale

Helen Dunmore’s ghost story is set in postwar Yorkshire and has layers of meaning beyond the chill of an apparition at the window. Dunmore evokes the loneliness of the newlywed protagonist, to haunting effect. Read by Jasmine Hyde.

About this programme

By Helen Dunmore, abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. A ghost story set during and after the Second World War about the power of the past to imprint itself on the present. In 1952 newly married Isabel Carey and her husband Philip move to a small town situated close to a wartime bomber station. Read by Jasmine Hyde.

Cast and crew

Cast

Reader
Jasmine Hyde

Crew

Abridged By
Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer
Beth O'Dea
Writer
Helen Dunmore
Categories
Arts

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