21 June 2004
The Eyre Affair
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by Jasper Fforde
Abridged by Jane Inglis
Please note: for copyright reasons this program will not be available as audio-on-demand.
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Thursday Next is a literary detective without equal. She is on the trail of the villainous Acheron Hades who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom.
Transcript
This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional difficulty in identifying speakers.
Jane Eyre herself has been taken hostage and Thursday must find a way into the book to repair the damage. This out-of-this-world tornado of adventure and imagination features Babs McMillan as the reader.
The Eyre Affair is published by Hodder and Stoughton.
Reader: Babs McMillan
Sound Engineer: Russell Thomson
Producer/Director: Anne McInerney
Concludes 12 July 2004
