A Radio 4 dramatization of Dickens's novel set against the bustle of a mighty city. Humbled and alone, his trading empire in ruins, the cold and uncaring Dombey seems doomed. But the love of his daughter brings redemption and understanding to a man whose only reason for living was Dombey and Son.
Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in...