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‘Was I a Monster?’

The Creature tells Victor Frankenstein about finding a copy of Paradise Lost, and compares his condition to that of Adam.

Frankenstein: Alex Kingston breathes life into Mary Shelley’s gothic horror novel – The Read, Sunday 7.55pm, BBC Four & @BBCiPlayer. pic.twitter.com/uedjSnt7jR

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Alex Kingston performs Frankenstein (Image: BBC/Rural Studios/Kie Cummings)

Alex Kingston breathes life into Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece.

A young and gifted student, Victor Frankenstein, develops a secret technique to “infuse a spark of being” into lifeless matter – but his unorthodox scientific experiment backfires. His Creation is not the perfect specimen he imagines that it will be, but rather a hideous creature who is rejected by Victor and the world at large…

Written more than 200 years ago, and published when Mary Shelley was just 20, the story of Frankenstein and his monster still resonates today: a classic horror story and a tragic romance which examines the battle between ambition and morality.

This performance reading by Bafta-nominated Kingston is an abridgement which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice.

A Rural Studios production for BBC Four and BBC iPlayer. It is directed by Rachel Lambert, produced by Julie Colman. The Executive Producer is Grant Black and the commissioner for BBC Arts is Stephen James-Yeoman.

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