The secret garden
(Audio CD)

Full-cast dramatisation.

Program notes in container insert.

This recording was previously released on cassette in 1992.

Originally aired on BBC Radio 5 in five episodes from March 14-April 11, 1991.

Produced by John Taylor ; music composed by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Jessica Marshall-Gardiner (Mary Lennox) ; Beryl Reid (Mrs. Medlock) ; Harriet Walter (Martha) ; Robin Bailey (Mr. Weatherstaff) ; Ian Taylor (Dickon) ; Guy Faulkner (Colin) ; with Maxine Audley, James Faulkner, Stephen Garlick, Fraser Kerr ; Patrick Rosenthal, Brett Usher, Jane Wittenshaw.

When spoilt young orphan Mary Lennox is brought back from India to live in her uncle's house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds the blunt ways of the staff at Misselthwaite Manor an unpleasant shock. Bored and miserable, it seems as though life in England will be awful. But Misselthwaite has hidden delights and, when Mary begins to discover them, nothing is the same again. First there is the secret garden -- and with it comes a boy who knows all the wonders of the country. He can even talk to the birds! Then, as the old house gives up its biggest secret, Mary forms a magical friendship.

Compact disc.