Hindle Wakes (with accompanying essay): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hindle Wakes (with accompanying essay), credited to Stanley Houghton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Hindle Wakes, by Stanley Houghton, with accompanying essay by Emma Goldman. Read by volunteer readers. Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in Blackpool and the two go off for what they believe to be secret fling in Llandudno. But after the death of Fanny's friend, Mary, in a pleasure boat accident at Blackpool the secret is revealed and the the two families are thrown into disarray. The leading light of the so-called Manchester School of realist dramatists, Stanley Houghton wrote Hindle Wakes in 1911 and it was a hit both in Mrs. Horniman's Gaiety Theatre in Manchester and the Aldwych Theatre, London in the following year. Houghton's best known play, Hindle Wakes has been filmed five times, most recently in 1976 as a TV film starring Donald Pleasance. The play's title refers to the wakes week holiday in the fictional town of Hindle and is also a pun on the name of a traditional Lancashire chicken dish. (Summary by Phil Benson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hindle Wakes (with accompanying essay)
• Author credits: Stanley Houghton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 2:12:38

Catalogue topics

• drama
• play
• essay

Track guide

1. 01 - Hindle Wakes Introduction — 4:24
2. 02 - Hindle Wakes Act 1 — 50:47
3. 03 - Hindle Wakes Act 2 — 38:30
4. 04 - Hindle Wakes Act 3 — 26:23
5. 05 - The English Drama: Stanley Houghton: Hindle Wakes — 12:34

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