6/12/2023 0 Comments Mansfield park radio 4![]() ![]() Lady Bertram (who sounds as if she is possibly slightly under the influence of some kind of drug all the time) manages to be casually manipulative. Crawford comes up, you want to scream for her - nobody believes she is serious about saying no. Everybody - even her own brother - seems to want her for their own devices. Yet the key to Fanny - well played by Sylvestra Le Touzel, I think - is to see how others see her as a walkover. She isn't self-centred and a bit spoilt (as Emma Woodhouse is), she isn't the brave soul who doesn't think twice about walking three miles and turning up muddy at grand houses (as Elizabeth Bennet did at Netherfield) and she doesn't flout convention and leave herself open to gossip and potential ridicule when things go wrong (as Marianne Dashwood did). ![]() Fanny Price, admittedly, is not the most wild or exciting of Austen's heroines. ![]() ![]() On the surface, sitting down to watch this miniseries, I can understand why the modern viewer (accustomed to film instead of videotape, and filming budgets and schedules that go more for locations than sets) might think this Mansfield Park a little dated and less than exciting, but - on the other hand - it was made twenty-five years ago and arguably still has something about it. ![]()
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