Not the most exciting but worth a listen... Mansfield park is definitely not Austen's most thrilling novel and this is not a particularly flamboyant adaptation but there is something relaxing and very charming about this radio adaptation. It makes the story very accessable and you can't help but like the endlessly hard done by herione Fanny Price. If you're looking for easy, relaxing and less known Austen this is for you. If you're looking for high drama or a lot of romance, in my opinion, this isn't for you.
An Enjoyable Listen, But A Deeply Flawed Adaptation Mansfield Park is my favourite Jane Austen novel, and while I found this Radio 4 dramatisation to be an enjoyable way to pass the time, it is deeply flawed in that it misses out the very soul of the novel. In Mansfield Park, Jane Austen had the genius to write a gripping, atmospheric novel in which almost nothing happens, the main character is an inanimate object of bricks and mortar, and the main human character is only slightly more active. Every now & then something threatens to happen but this... more info
