The BBC Media Centre has shared details for the broadcast of BBC Radio 4's The Forsytes, which begins on Saturday January 30th. 

Ep 1/7
Saturday 30 January
2.30pm-4.00pm
BBC RADIO 4

Of all his beautiful possessions, wealthy solicitor Soames Forsyte considers his wife, Irene, the most beautiful. Why then does she want separate bedrooms? 

Soames Forsyte..... Joseph Millson
Irene Forsyte..... Juliet Aubrey
Narrator..... Jessica Raine
Philip Bosinney..... Harry Hadden-Paton
Old Jolyon..... Brian Protheroe
June Forsyte..... Rebecca Hamilton
Jo Forsyte..... Ewan Bailey
Aunt Juley..... Jessica Turner
James Forsyte..... Gerard McDermott
Cab Driver..... Gerard McDermott
Emily Forsyte..... Susan Jameson
Swithin Forsyte..... Sean Baker
Bilson..... Debra Baker

Over the next two years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new dramatisation of all nine books in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans the 50 years from 1886 to 1936.

Beginning with a 90-minute drama which introduces the family in 1886, and in particular to the cautious, meticulous Soames Forsyte, of whom Galsworthy says: 'he would not have gone without a bath for worlds.' As the family gathers in their huge London houses around Green Park, and at what's known as 'Forsyte Exchange', they can establish the precise stock of any family member, "who's up, who's down and who might be heading for a fall". But little do they realise in their comfortable, complacent lives how the old world order is changing. Young June Forsyte has fallen in love with the dashing and unorthodox architect, Philip Bosinney. But when she introduces him to her sister-in-law - Soames's wife Irene - scandal is waiting just around the corner.

The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 14:30.

Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna.
Original music composed by Neil Brand.
Producers/Marion Nancarrow and Gemma Jenkins for the BBC.