Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
A woman in need of total rest for nervous depression, lies alone overtaken by a strange obsession. Starring Charlotte Emmerson.
A woman is taken to the country by her doctor husband in order to cure her of an unnamed illness - post-natal depression - after the birth of a child.
Instructed to have total rest and emptiness of mind and avoid stimulating company, the woman sinks into a still-deeper depression.
Alone in the top floor nursery of a rented house, she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper and descends into madness...
Starring Charlotte Emmerson.
A literary masterpiece by one of the most commanding feminists of her time.
Dramatised from the 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Music composed by Gary Yershon.
Performed by Gary Yershon and Laetitia Havers
Producer Susan Roberts
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in January 2006.
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- Sat 7 Oct 2023 00:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
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