TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES

★★★★ RADIO 4 HHHH

Tess is born into a dirt-poor family, but her no-good father has delusions of grandeur. Tess is beautiful and hard-working, but, as is always the way in one of Thomas Hardy’s novels, she is also doomed. Faye Marsay plays Tess in this new, three

Faye Marsay (3pm, Radio 4) part dramatisation of a tale of seduction, murder and cruel fate, set in the beauty and harshness of rural life in 19th-century Wessex.