Episode 1
A young woman arrives on the New York waterfront seeking the father who abandoned her. O'Neill's Pulitzer-winning masterpiece asks whether the past can ever truly be left behind.
Anna Christie has spent fifteen years waiting for a father who never came. When she finally arrives on the New York waterfront to find him, she brings with her a past she has told nobody, and a fury at the world that has shaped her whole life. What she doesn't expect is the sea itself, and what it might do to her.
Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is one of the towering works of American theatre: a searingly honest portrait of people trying to outrun their histories, until a shipwrecked Irish stoker arrives out of the fog and gives Anna a reason to stop running.
Adapted for radio by Lucy Catherine.
Anna . . . . . Julianna Jennings
Chris . . . . . David Threlfall
Mat . . . . . Ciarán Owens
Marthy . . . . . Heather Craney
Johnny . . . . . Parker Sawyers
Larry . . . . . Kenndrick Horton
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
Technical producers: Keith Graham & Sam Dickinson
Production co-ordinator: Ben Hollands
A BBC Studios production.
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- Sun 5 Jul 202615:00BBC Radio 4
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