Dramatic Readings on Audiocassettes and CD

Please note that unless otherwise indicated all readings cited here are of the whole of Anthony Trollope's texts. I also cite some dramatic readings of the whole of a biography of Fanny Trollope and the whole of two of Joanne Trollope's novels. The only readings of abridged texts included are the selections from the Trollope Society recording, My Life and Stories. There are numerous readings of variously abridged texts of Trollope's novels; these the reader may find cited online at online bookstores like Amazon.

• The Barchester Chronicles: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Dr Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset. Read by Timothy West.
• Dr Wortle's School. Read by Timothy West.
• The Palliser Novels: Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister, The Duke's Children. Read by Timothy West
• The Way We Live Now. Read by Timothy West.

For further information email: Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd.. These are also available from the Trollope Society. Timothy West turns Trollope into a mellow disillusioned Chaucer (he also reads Chaucer for another company which produced abridged audiocassettes).

• An Autobiography. Read by Bernard Mayes.
• The Choir (by Joanne Trollope). Read by Nadia May (as stated above, also known as Donada Peters)
• Kept in the Dark. Read by Walter Zimmermann.
• Kept in the Dark. Read by Jill Masters (Jimcin Recording).
• An Old Man's Love. Read by Frederick Davidson (as stated above, also known as David Case).
• Phineas Finn. Read by Robert Whitfield
• The Rector's Wife (by Joanna Trollope). Read by Nadia May.

For further information email: Blackstone Audio.

• 'Alice Dugdale'. A Long Short Story. Read by Sheila Lash (Jimcin Recording).
• Anthony Trollope by Victoria Glendinning. A biography which suceeds in giving the reader a sense of the man's character. Read by David Case (also known as Frederick Davidson)
• Ayala's Angel. Read by Donada Peters (also known as Nadia May).
• The Barchester Chronicles: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Dr Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset. Read by David Case.
• Miss Mackenzie. Read by Donada Peters.
• The Palliser Novels: Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister, The Duke's Children. Read by David Case.
• 'The Two Heroines of Plumplington' and 'Christmas at Thompson Hall'. Two Long Short Stories. 'Christmas at Thompson Hall' can be regarded as a brief novella; it is a five-chapter plangently comic Christmas story. Read by Diane Burrows (Jimcin Recording).
• The Way We Live Now. Read by David Case.

Books-on-Tape produced the above set of tapes but have apparently sold them all off. They are no longer renting any tapes. I cannot resist remarking how shameful this is. Since most online stores do not list who is reading a tape or where it was produced, these tapes will basiclly be mostly unavailable. I've kept the list online so the interested reader/listener may perhaps be able to find the audiocassettes. David Case's sardonic sinuously elegant voice captures the undercurrents of Trollope's irony; Donada Peters is equally effective, bright yet poignant when appropriate. You feel you are watching the characters on stage.

• Harry Heathcote of Bangoil. Read by Peter Joyce.
• Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite. Read by Peter Joyce.

The above are on sale at Amazon.

• The Warden. Read by Nigel Hawthorne.

The above is on sale at Amazon.

• The Bertrams. Read by Flo Gibson.

The above is on sale at Amazon where it is described as unabridged. All the other Flo Gibson's readings of Trollope's novels appear to be of abridged texts.

• Fanny Trollope by Teresa Ransom. Read by Prunella Sales.

The parent audio books company is W.F. Howes, based in Leicester. Email: sales@wfhowes.co.uk

John Letts introduces and then Timothy West reads interpersed revelant portions from Trollope's An Autobiography, with selections from the novels.

• My Life and Stories

  Disc One: The Macdermots of Ballycloran, reader T. P. McKenna
  The Warden, reader Simon Callow
  Barchester Towers, reader Gabriel Woolf
  The Three Clerks, reader Julian Glover
  The Bertrams, reader Ian Richardson
  Doctor Thorne, reader Prunella Scales
  Orley Farm, reader Geraldine James
  Phineas Finn, reader Robert Hardy
  Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, reader Eleanor Bron
  Can You Forgive Her?, Dorothy Tutin
  

  Disc Two: Framley Parsonage, reader Simon Callow
  The Small House at Allington, reader Samuel West
  The Eustace Diamonds, reader Prunella Scales
  The Way We Live Now, reader Julian Glover
  The Prime Minister, reader Harriet Walter
  Is He Popenjoy?, Ian Richardson
  The American Senator, reader T. P. McKenna
  Rachel Ray, reader Geraldine James
  The Belton Estate, reader Eleanor Bron
  Ayala's Angel, reader Harriet Walter
  The Last Chronicle of Barset, reader Gabriel Woolf
  The Last Chronicle of Barset, reader Robert Hardy
  

For further information, go to the website of Michael Powe, listowner of Trollope-l; there is a link to and information about the Trollope Society.