Woman’s Hour | Ruth Wilson in The Little Stranger
Based on The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Ruth Wilson, best known for a BBC version of Jane Eyre, The Affair and Luther, stars in a new film, The Little Stranger, based on the novel by Sarah Waters. Set in a large dilapidated house in 1940s England, it's a story of repression, class envy and strange goings on -featuring an aristocratic family and a local doctor.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 10'15''
- Broadcast date: 2018
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource
Saturday Review | The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Little Stranger is a new novel by Sarah Waters and takes us back to the austere world of late 1940s Britain. A crumbling stately home in Warwickshire and the family which lives in straightened circumstances there become objects of increasing fascination for a local doctor. But his belief in the rational, scientific world is shaken by some strange goings on at the old house.
Saturday Review | The Little Stranger
Lenny Abrahamson's The Little Stranger, based on the novel by Sarah Waters, is set in the austerity-era Britain of 1948. Domhnall Gleeson is Dr Faraday who is called out to a patient at Hundreds Hall, a country manor where his mother once worked as a housemaid. The Little Stranger also stars Ruth Wilson, Charlotte Rampling and Will Poulter.