Mrs Dalloway (1986)

Based on Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Clarissa Dalloway, a successful hostess and wife of a politician, is giving a party. Life and death, sanity and insanity, memories of friendship, love and loss - all combine to fill the hours of this beautiful June day.

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  • Type: Adaptation
  • Channel: BBC Radio 3
  • Duration: 1'44'00''
  • Broadcast date: 1986
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UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

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Other Archive resources
Mrs Dalloway | BBC Two | 2000

Mrs Dalloway (2000)

As politicians wife Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a society gathering at her home in 1920s London, she muses over her past, wondering whether she has made the right choices in life.
Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 4 Extra | 2014

Mrs Dalloway's Party | 3: The New Dress

Mabel chooses a new yellow dress of a different style to wear to the party, but soon regrets her decision. Read by Amanda Root.