

Blithe Spirit
Author: Noel Coward
Narrator: Corin Redgrave, Kika Markham, Joanna Lumley, Thelma Ruby, and full cast
Unabridged: 2 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 08/01/2004
Author: Noel Coward
Narrator: Corin Redgrave, Kika Markham, Joanna Lumley, Thelma Ruby, and full cast
Unabridged: 2 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 08/01/2004
Noel Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933), and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and This Happy Breed (1942). In the fifties he started a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), two volumes of autobiography, and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964), and Bon Voyage (l967). Coward was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.