I've now got the CDs of the BBC Radio 4 serialisation from 1999: Philip Glenister plays Robert. Well, that might explain the accident: Gene Hunt's style of driving applied to a horse…
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Heavens! Was that really broadcast in 1999? I wouldn't have thought it was that long along - I can remember listening to it in my car as I drove home, having got back to the station just before 'Front Row' ended.
This website - http://www.hello-yorkshire.co.uk/blog/south-riding-by-winifred-holtby-becomes-new-bbc-drama
suggests it was 2007 - but that doesn't seem right to me either, as I had a job at that time that meant I certainly wouldn't have been anywhere near home as early as 7.45!
As for Gene Hunt on horseback. Crikey!
Heavens! Was that really broadcast in 1999? I wouldn't have thought it was that long along - I can remember listening to it in my car as I drove home, having got back to the station just before 'Front Row' ended.
The CD case-note says it ran from 31 May-18 June 1999. Of course, it's probably been repeated by Radio 4 since, and the 2007 broadcast on Radio 7 was clearly a repeat.
As for Gene Hunt on horseback. Crikey!
My thoughts exactly! Scary! (But it would explain why he keeps pranging his horses, and eventually goes off the cliff!)
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I played the CDs on my Walkman on the train down from Glasgow to Hull. It's quite a decent adaptation, considering it's just as compressed as the 2011 TV version (3 hrs), but I was somewhat surprised that they'd cast Joe as a Geordie, presumably because of his chat-up line about Ellen Wilkinson – perhaps forgetting that the Jarrow March had made her a nationally-known figure in 1932.
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