Alls Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare
Alls Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare
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All's Well That Ends Well
A BBC Radio Shakespeare production

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Carl Prekopp, Siân Phillips, Miriam Margolyes, Full Cast, Emma Fielding, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Griffiths

Unabridged: 2 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2004

Synopsis

In this BBC full-cast production of All's Well That Ends Well, the trials of marriage are hilariously explored. Will Helena complete the Herculean tasks to win Bertram's love?

All's Well That Ends Well finds Helena rewarded for her ministries to the sick with the choice of any husband she wishes. Her choice, Bertram, is unwilling to have her as his wife and sets her a number of seemingly impossible tasks to complete before he will relent.

Starring Emma Fielding as Helena, Siân Phillips as the Countess and Miriam Margolyes as the Widow, with Richard Griffiths as the King, Simon Russell Beale as Parolles and Carl Prekopp as Bertram.

BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly-formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.

In this acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the modern day.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on August 16, 2019

I just can't bring myself to love this play, although I believe I understand what Shakespeare is doing here. He takes a fairy tale plot, adds a fiercely realistic setting (complete with a pointless war and friendly fire), adds a desperately mismatched romantic couple (Helena, a commoner and a contro......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on June 12, 2020

Helena he’s just not that into you......more

Goodreads review by Bram on July 11, 2011

Where can you go after writing Hamlet? Only into the bitterest depths of irony and nihilism, apparently. All’s Well That Ends Well is part of the problem play trilogy that followed soon after the Danish Prince’s demise and Malvolio’s humiliation, and it appears on the surface to be less twisted than......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 06, 2022

It may be surprising to see me note this one with less than 5 stars, but I was irritated with All's Well That Ends Well because I found the love story inadequate. What Helena sees in her recalcitrant and wandering lover Bertram just totally escapes me. The bed trick was less convincing for me here t......more

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