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From: The Sunday Herald
Date: 20080413
Author:BARRY DIDCOCK

IN recent years, BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial strand has tackled novels as varied as Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, James Hogg's The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justied Sinner and Wilkie Collins's The Woman In White. It's gentle, Sunday-afternoon stuff for the most part, the radio equivalent of those teatime Dickens adaptations they show on telly after Songs Of Praise has visited Penrith or Market Rasen.

Ordinarily, I can't see the point of the classic serial, a prime example of the sort of paternalistic, here's-what's-good-for-you broadcasting we have been taught to jeer ...

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