Mrs Dalloway (2022)

Based on Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

To celebrate Radio 4's Modernism series, Sian Thomas reads Virginia Woolf's most celebrated novel, set over one day in 1923.

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Content
  • Type: Book Reading
  • Channel: BBC Radio 4
  • Duration: 13'42''
  • Broadcast date: 2022
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UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

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More episodes from this series

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 2

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 2

2022 | 13'42''

With preparations for the party afoot, Clarissa Dalloway has and unexpected visitor.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 3

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 3

2022 | 13'28''

Peter Walsh remembers the dreadful parting with Clarissa at Bourton.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 4

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 4

2022 | 13'27''

As Peter Walsh muses on his past in Regent's Part, a former soldier struggles with the present.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 5

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 5

2022 | 13'26''

With Clarissa's party preparations underway, life goes on across London.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 6

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 6

2022 | 13'13''

Love and religion, as Clarissa Dalloway's daughter Elizabeth and the pious Miss Kilman go out for tea.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 7

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 7

2022 | 13'39''

Septimus and his wife share a moment of happiness, before tragedy strikes.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 8

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 8

2022 | 13'38''

Clarissa Dalloway's party has begin, and it is rumoured that the prime minister is coming.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 9

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 9

2022 | 13'36''

With old and new friends gathered together at the party, Clarissa cannot but help think to the past.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 10

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 10

2022 | 13'35''

With preparations for the party afoot, Clarissa's thoughts return to Bourton and Sally Seaton.

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 10

Mrs Dalloway (2022) | Episode 10

2022 | 13'35''

With preparations for the party afoot, Clarissa's thoughts return to Bourton and Sally Seaton.
Other Archive resources
Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 4 | 2012

Writing Madness

Vivienne Parry takes her diagnoses of literary heroines into the 20th century and the age of Freud, the Great War and the explosion of the 'sciences of the mind'. Novels on the couch include Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway....interestingly with both novels there's a tendency to base the heroines on real people.
Mrs Dalloway | BBC Four | 2014

The Secret Life of Books | Mrs Dalloway

Uncovering the stories behind the creation of six classic British books. Alexandra Harris shows how Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway re-imagined what a novel might be.