BBC Radio 4’s Han Suyin A Many Spendoured Thing Adaptation

Posted: December 30th, 2023 | No Comments »

Ming Ho’s new dramatisation of Han Suyin’s landmark semi-autobiographical novel for BBC Radio 4.

The story follows Suyin, a doctor and writer, living and working in late 1940s Hong Kong. When Suyin meets British war reporter Mark, she embarks on a secret love affair that tests her relationship to her own Eurasian identity and divided loyalties. With a fierce sense of duty to China, and a difficult past, Suyin is forced to ask if their relationship could really survive outside of Hong Kong. And at what cost?

Originally published in 1952, this is a story of two societies on the cusp of change – colonial Hong Kong and feudal, revolutionary China – in a fresh adaptation for BBC Radio 4.

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