I found this to be an amazing and interesting read! And the cover is so lovely!! Looking forward to the author's next story!

It took me a little while to get through this one, but when I did, wow! Highly enjoyable and very impressive production!

Thank you Netgalley for the audio file in exchange for an honest review.

I have been a fan of Angela Carter since first reading The Bloody Chamber. I enjoyed hearing her stories rather reading them. This is a great addition for anyone who enjoys mystery and horror audiobooks. The cast did a great job.

This radio show includes many of Carter’s stories adapted in different versions over time. Some of them are readings, and others are performed into shows. I found a couple of these to be enjoyable, but I was not so keen on the majority of the stories.

Angela Carter's writing is visceral, evocative and highly emotive. Having read her work in the past I was drawn to this collection. This audio was fantastic, the actors fully inhabited their roles and when listening to it I felt transported into the story. The mix of her work in this collection meant that there is something for everyone, from a reimagined fairy tale to a truth life crime play. I found a few of them not to my liking but that was personal preference rather than the dramatisation itself. I found as a whole the casting was spot on.
The added bonus was an interview with Angela herself, recorded shortly before her early death from cancer.
This is a fantastic collection and any lover of Angela's work is sure to love it.

***ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley.co.uk in return for an honest review***

As a fan of Angela Carter since university this collection of radio dramas was an absolute pleasure to listen to.

A must for all fans and a great introduction to Carter's work for those who are new to her work.

This set of twelve dramas adapted from The Bloody Chamber is superb. The casting for each is expertly planned and every play is gripping. Chilling, horrifying, and full of atmosphere, I absolutely recommend this for fans of Angela Carter for anyone who appreciates wonderful prose and exceptional dialogue. An interview with Carter concludes the audiobook.

I am new to Angela Carter's short stories, and the BBC Radio Drama Collection was an excellent way to be introduced to them. You get an immersive experience, with a introduction about the author, thirteen of her stories and an interview with the author.

The dramatisations of these stories were the best part of the audiobook for me. They are deeply atmospheric and chilling with a full cast of narrators to make Carter's work come to life. I have to say I enjoyed the way they were recorded more than the stories themselves. I enjoyed some of them, but some were too obscure for me. I found I could take or leave them.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to review a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest opinion.

I don't userally go for a dramatised collection. But was interested as i have read a few Angela carter books, but also struggled with a few.

The dramatisation does help bringing out the emotions and the story.

There was a few i did enjoy and they was mainly the stories from the bloody chamber, and q few i didn't. That it was the story rather than the dramatisation, though the background noises sometimes did distract or hurt my hears due to the pitch so would suggest not to listen with earphones.

Overall was an enjoyable listen. The interview at the end with Angela Carter was interesting to listen to but also she talks about things that i didn't pick up on, but looking back is oh yeah...

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with a copy of the audio of the drama collection for qn honest review.

Rating 3.5/5

This book is somewhat of an unusual pick for me, I haven’t ever read any Angela Carter before and only recently heard about her through an author discussion but I was very intrigued to delve into some of her work and then I found this audiobook and thought it might be a good way to experience some of the stories, as the collection seemed like there was a lot to it.

I also have to admit that I have never really listened to radio dramas before so I wasn’t really sure what to expect and if I’m being very honest I’m still not 100% sure if this is a medium that I would come back to. It might just be because I’m not used to them but there was something about the overuse of background noise and the acting through certain scenes that felt really weird and kind of pulled me from the stories.

The stories themselves were very interesting, there were a few of the shorter dramatisations that I had to read up on because I felt like I didn’t have enough context for what was happening, but I enjoyed their dark edge and that at times there was an element of the unknown about them, that there was no way to predict how a story would play out. Obviously now there are a lot of books that have turned traditional fairytales on their head but I believe that Angela Carter was one of the first to do so and I enjoyed seeing how she would change the narrative and what effect that has had on modern stories.

I enjoyed most of the collection and I discovered that I quite like when there is a cast of actors to play out every character rather than the same voice attempting to convey everyone, and it was a pretty impressive cast with some amazing performances. It was also really interesting to get the introductions to the stories through Susannah Clapp, Angela Carter’s literary executor and friend, as a newcomer to her work I found that I could get a bit more of a sense of the author and the story that I was about to listen to in the broader context of her collection.

I definitely had some parts that I enjoyed more than others Puss in Boots and Nights at the Circus were favourites whilst I wasn’t too sure about the two biographical dramas and whilst I was surprised by the interview with the author at the end and I enjoyed listening to it for what she had to say, I really did not like the interviewer, but each to their own I suppose. I do think that this is a collection that I would revisit, I ended up listening to it in the same way that I would a normal audiobook which is continuously but I am wondering if perhaps dropping back in on certain stories now and again would endear me a little more to the style of the medium.

This was a very good introduction to Angela Carter and her work and whilst I’m still not sure about my thoughts about radio dramas I can appreciate how they have brought to life these unusual and imaginative stories, I’m sure that it is a collection that will be enjoyed by many.

This was a wonderfully varied collection. Beautifully performed by a myriad of big UK stars. It showcases the deep interest Ms Carter had in what might be termed fairytales but in their original form were not suitable for tots. Retelling or reinterpretations for a more savvy, politicised and informed audience, there is a naughty knowingness between reader an author unparalleled in others.

My thanks to Penguin Random House U.K. Audio for a review copy via NetGalley of ‘The Angela Carter BBC Radio Drama Collection’ by Angela Carter. It contains 12 dramas, an introduction, and a concluding interview with Angela Carter. The dramas are individually cast.

This collection was beyond wonderful. Many of the dramas were recorded or re-recorded in 2018 as part of the BBC’s Get Carter Season. It opens with an introduction by Susannah Clapp, Angela Carter’s literary executor. Clapp also provided linking material for each drama.

The Introduction is followed by five short dramas adapted from ‘The Bloody Chamber’, then a dramatisation of Carter’s unproduced screenplay ‘Murder in Christchurch’, based on the 1954 New Zealand Parker-Holme murder case. Then there is a two-part full cast dramatisation of one of her most famous novels, ‘Nights at the Circus’.

While I was unfamiliar with the final five dramas each was interesting and unique in its own right. ‘Vampirella’ was a poetic story of Dracula’s daughter; ‘Come Unto These Yellow Sands’ is what Carter termed an ‘artificial biography’ of the Victorian fairy painter, Richard Dadd; ‘Puss in Boots’, another of the stories from ‘The Bloody Chamber’; ‘A Self Made Man’ a biographical drama about the English novelist Ronald Firbank, and finally ‘Lizzie's Tiger’, a short story about a young Lizzie Borden’s encounter with a circus tiger.

The collection concludes with a 1992 interview with Carter shortly before her death for BBC Radio 3’s Third Ear.

Again this was a superb collection and I loved it. It is an audiobook anthology that I certainly plan to revisit again and again for the beauty of Carter’s prose, her imaginative interpretations, and the sheer pleasure of listening to these exceptional radio dramas.

Highly recommended.

I love Angela Carter's works and loved this audiobook.
It was great to listen to the story as they are told in a way that makes the text even more emotionally charaged.
A great work and an excellent audiobook that I stongly recommend.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Strange but intriguing series of mini dramatised stories.

Actually my first time listening to any Angela Carter series. If your a fan you'll love the biography interviews, I still found them interesting without knowing who she is.

Liked I could listen to a chapter then go back and revisit another. Bit like a podcast series as they are not linked.

I have to Admit I had never heard of Angela Carter but I requested the audio book because I've always had a love of fairy tales and I love the original brother Grimm stories with their twisted grusomeness, no Disney here. So imagine how suprised I was to find that Angela Carter had written the Company of Wolves which I loved as a film. The stories all follow the same darkness as a traditional fairy story but with quite a sexual undertone, they are all very well adapted and acted out and it was a pleasure to listen too.

I really enjoyed this! It's the first time I've listened to radio plays but I don't think it will be my last. I particular loved the adapted stories from The Bloody Chamber but that's no surprise as it's my favourite book. Part 01 of Nights at the Circus was also wonderful!
The interview at the end was a really nice surprise, it was great to hear her voice instead of just reading her interviews like I have in the past. Although there were a few stories I didn't enjoy other all I would really recommand this audiobook, especially for those that want to get a taste of Angela Carters stories!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this wonderful audiobook arc!!

This is amazing! As a person who has always wanted to read Angela Carter’s work this was so good. This audiobook was so easy to listen to whilst working, all while being engaging and cohesive!

I have enjoyed listening to these radio dramatised stories. The style of acting and drama takes me back to times when my mother listened to radio 4 plays. They are brilliantly acted and have been well adapted for an adult audience, although the premise is on the traditional fairy tales along the lines of Grimm rather than Disney!
Many thanks to #NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. I shall be revisiting these tales time and time again.

The likelihood is that the listener knows these stories, and they should be subject to a different review - suffice to say that they are fantastic, and savage, and every word feels measured.

This production, or collection of productions, is also fantastic - not what I initially expected, being more used to audiobooks, where clarity is king, and the performance is usually by a single voice reading the words. These are dramatisations, with casts of actors who do wonderful work bringing the characters to life amongst the strange and disturbing narratives that Carter creates. My only criticism would be that they sometimes lose audibility, easing into breathiness and whispers, which necessitated rewinding if I wished to hear them.

Great stuff!

The BBC have collated a marvellous Angela Carter BBC radio drama collection that is an absolute joy to listen to. I have long been a fan of radio drama, feeling that it is an art form that leaves more room for the reader to exercise their imagination, and this point is made in the introduction by Susannah Clapp. There are a number of stories from the acclaimed The Bloody Chamber collection, and among my favourites was The Christchurch murders and Puss in Boots. The collection is well served with some outstanding actors and their performances, including Fiona Shaw, James Wilby, Andrew Sachs in Puss-in -Boots and Roisin Conaty as a trapeze artist. There is the trademark dark, disturbing, and the chilling in the radical feminist Carter tradition, of classic fairy tales subverted, challenging social norms and attitudes. It finishes with an insightful interview with Carter where she touches on a wide range of subjects and which I had heard before. I can see this appealing to many listeners, including Carter's legion of fans. Highly recommended. Many thanks to Netgalley for the audio.