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'Wuthering Heights' radio version to have f-word

2011-03-22 15:40:00


London, March 22 (IANS) A new radio version of Emily Bronte's romantic novel 'Wuthering Heights' will be littered with explicit phrases, including the f-word, a media report said.

The BBC radio version has been adapted by Jonathan Holloway.


'Wuthering Heights' is the only novel by Emily Bronte. It was first published in 1847.


The name comes from a Yorkshire manor on which the story is based. It is a tale of passionate love between two characters, Heathcliff and Catherine.


'The play contains a number of strong expletives, with both of them using the F-word,' a BBC source was quoted as saying by the Daily Express.


Author Jonathan Holloway said: 'It is a story of a tortuous, unfulfilled relationship. The f-words are part of my attempt to capture the shock the book caused when it was published.'


But swearing might make the play more like the original, according to Andrew McCarthy, of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Howarth, West Yorkshire.


He quotes a sentence from the 1847 version: 'I was told the curate should have his (blank) teeth shoved down his (blank) throat.'


'It doesn't take much imagination to fill in the blanks,' McCarthy said.

[MsSilentia]

Wuthering Heights was hardly written for easy chocked people anyway. Words are tools for a writer and the more you have the better. If this screenwriter has an artistic purpose for it - then why not?

[prendrelemick]

Those northern girls eh.
Can you imagine a quiet fireside scene at the Haworth Parsonage.

Emily! Get the f***king coal in!

P*ss off Charlotte get it yerself. Lazy b*tch!

[Lokasenna]

Those northern girls eh.
Can you imagine a quiet fireside scene at the Haworth Parsonage.

Emily! Get the f***king coal in!

P*ss off Charlotte get it yerself. Lazy b*tch!

In all serious, it rather sounds like an attempt to sensationalise. This fellow presumably wants his adaptation to measure up against the myriad other adaptations out there, and he's only imaginative enough to achieve it through the use of swearwords.

Hmm, there may be a market for this. How about a gritty, sweary, realistic adaptation of The Tale of Peter Rabbit?

[kiki1982]

Imagine that!

Still, the higher classes do swear more than we as the middle classes are allowed to do. I was once awestruck at a documentary on Prescott. In it, he visited some nobleman or other (dinner party I think), about 70 years old I think, and the man at least said 'f*ck' about 5 times in the space of a few minutes! I mean, in nice Eton type English. It wasn't Prescott either who was doing it. They say that Princess Margaret also used to swear a lot. Can you imagine how that would sound .

So I suppose Heathcliff may well do it, but somehow it doesn't really strike me as attractive and also a bit sensationalistic. I always think that swearing is an inadequate way of expressing yourself, although I sometimes abandon myself to it, just to proove a point .

[Emil Miller]

In all serious, it rather sounds like an attempt to sensationalise. This fellow presumably wants his adaptation to measure up against the myriad other adaptations out there, and he's only imaginative enough to achieve it through the use of swearwords.

Got it first time.


Hmm, there may be a market for this. How about a gritty, sweary, realistic adaptation of The Tale of Peter Rabbit?


That comes next.

[The Comedian]

I really just think that if there 's one thing that modern media really lacks is, it's got to be swear words. You just never hear those things anywhere. *smirk*

[OrphanPip]

In a somewhat related issue. The distributors of The King's Speech in the US want to distribute an edited version with the swearing scene removed. The film got an R rating in the US because of the scene. Silly.