BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th to 15th January 2020
John Steinbeck's epic tale exploring the nature of good and evil, inspired by the story of Cain and Abel.
Starring Holliday Grainger, Robin Laing and David Yip.
Dramatised in three parts by Donna Franceschild.
Director: Kirsty Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016.
JOHN STEINBECK - EAST OF EDEN - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th January 2020
Cathy Ames is a young woman who has always filled her parents with a deep sense of unease.
Adam and Charles Trask are brothers whose relationship veers dangerously between love and hate.
Their lives are about to collide in a dark and febrile drama about familial love.
Cyrus ... Jimmy Chisholm
Charles ... Steven Duffy
Cathy ... Holliday Grainger
Adam ... Robin Laing
Mr Edwards ... Gavin Mitchell
Mr Ames ... Nick Underwood
Mrs Ames ... Anita Vettesse
Narrator ... David Yip
JOHN STEINBECK - EAST OF EDEN - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 14th January 2020
Adam has fallen under the spell of the enigmatic Cathy – a woman who has murdered her parents and now, on the run, has married Adam. He’s captivated by her. But on their wedding night it was Adam’s brother Cathy slept with.
The newly-weds are about to start a new life in California, but it’s not the one Adam imagines in this dark and febrile drama about familial love.
Samuel ... Jimmy Chisholm
Cathy ... Holliday Grainger
Cal ... Alasdair Hankinson
Faye ... Kathryn Howden
Aron ... Samuel Keefe
Adam ... Robin Laing
Abra ... Gemma McElhinney
Dr Tilson ... Nick Underwood
Ethel ... Anita Vettesse
Lee ... David Yip
JOHN STEINBECK - EAST OF EDEN - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th January 2020
Adam Trask has been raising his twin boys with the help of his cook, Lee.
His estranged wife - the enigmatic Cathy - has taken over a brothel after murdering its previous owner.
In order to protect the twins, Adam has always maintained that their mother is dead, but Cal, after listening in at a door, now knows the truth.
That knowledge is set to destroy the Trask world in this dark and febrile drama about familial love.
Judge ... Jimmy Chisholm
Cathy ... Holliday Grainger
Cal ... Alasdair Hankinson
Aron ... Samuel Keefe
Adam ... Robin Laing
Abra ... Gemma McElhinney
Joe ... Gavin Mitchell
Will ... Nick Underwood
Ethel ... Anita Vettesse
Lee ... David Yip
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