Springline Radio Players

Our audio play, "Great Expectations" was written by Charles Dickens in 1860 and 1861. It is presented in ten episodes with the first five episodes being released each day from Monday to Friday with the remaining five episodes all available the following day, Saturday. The mid-19th century was a time of great social change in Britain. There was increasing movement from the countryside to the towns, education was slowly improving and the legal system was being changed. The novel reflects such changes and follows the childhood and young adult years of Pip a blacksmith's apprentice in a country village. He suddenly comes into a large fortune (his great expectations) from a mysterious benefactor and moves to London where he enters high society. The young Pip meets and assists the escaped convict Magwitch on the marshes near his home where he lives with his sister and Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.