THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Dramatised on BBC World Service
Posted by Donna Coonan in Book News, TV, Film & Radio News
The BBC World Service will broadcast a dramatisation of the 1930s classic Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston this Saturday at 8pm, repeated on Sunday 20th February at 11pm. For more information, see here.
It stars Adjoa Andoh, Pippa Bennett Warner, Nathaniel Martello White, Dona Croll, Petra Letang, Clint Dyer and Anthony Ofoegbu.
'One of the very greatest American novels of the twentieth century . . . There is no novel I love more' Zadie Smith
'My favourite love story of all time' Oprah Winfrey
'There is no book more important to me than this one . . . It speaks to me as no novel, past or present, has ever done' Alice Walker
You can listen live on 648 MW/Freeview 710/DAB digital/Sky digital 0115 – or online.
It will be available via the BBC iPlayer for seven days after broadcast at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/bbc_world_service
Or as a listen again option for fourteen days after transmission at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/world_drama.shtml
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