In 2002 he won the Audio of the Year Award for his reading of A Study in Scarlet. He has also directed for Naxos AudioBooks four Shakespeare plays, including King Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh), which won Best Drama Award from the SWPA in 2001. For Naxos AudioBooks he wrote The History of the Theatre, which won an award for most original production from the Spoken Word Publishers Association in 2001.

The Forsyte Saga contains Book 1: The Man of Property, Interlude: Indian Summer of a Forsyte, Book 2: In Chancery, Interlude: Awakening and Book 3: To Let.ĭownload PDF booklet More product details Digital ISBN:ĭavid Timson has made over 1,000 broadcasts for BBC Radio Drama. His most prized possession is his strikingly beautiful wife Irene, but she is profoundly unhappy the bitterness only builds, and the events that follow are set to ripple through the next generation of Forsytes. In Volume 1, The Forsyte Saga, Soames Forsyte – the ‘man of property’ – is desperate to uphold values and conventions that are becoming out of step with the time. Infused with warmth, compassion and engaging characters, the complete Chronicles are divided into three volumes, containing nine books and four interludes in total.

As the disintegrating values of the Victorian era progress to World War I and the political uncertainty of the 1930s, the family’s material and emotional struggles are set within the dwindling status of the affluent middle-classes. John Galsworthy’s magnificent trilogy of power and passion chronicles the wealthy Forsyte family. Audio Sample John Galsworthy The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol.

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