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The Road from Colonus

Series of short stories by EM Forster. Misunderstandings thwart plans for a sojourn in the idyllic Greek countryside. Read by Andrew Sachs.

Misunderstandings thwart plans for a sojourn in the idyllic Greek countryside in The Road From Colonus, the next in our series of short fiction by EM Forster. The novelist best known for twentieth century classics including A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howard's End was also a prolific writer of short stories. In them he explored many of the themes central to his novels, including the morals and mores of the middle classes in the early twentieth century, and his fascination with the Mediterranean.
Read by Andrew Sachs. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

15 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Wed 7 Apr 2010 15:30
  • Wed 11 May 2011 15:30