Hear a Text

Zillah leads Lockwood to a chamber in which Heathcliff allows no one to stay. Lockwood discovers a bed hidden behind panels and decides to spend the night there, safe from Heathcliff. By candlelight Lockwood spots three names — Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton — and some books. Unable to fall asleep, he glances through the mildewed books.

Lockwood returns to Wuthering Heights, and as he arrives, snow begins to fall. He knocks in vain, for, as Joseph explains, no one is willing or able to let him in. Eventually, a young man appears and beckons Lockwood to follow him. Once inside, Lockwood sees who he assumes is Heathcliff's wife and attempts to engage her in conversation. He does not succeed. Lockwood waits for Heathcliff's return, all the while making inaccurate assumptions and suppositions. The snowfall develops into a snowstorm, and Lockwood asks for assistance finding his way back to the Grange. Unable to get any help, he grabs a lantern that he says he will return in the morning. Joseph thinks he is stealing the lantern and commands the dogs to attack him. Lockwood ends up suffering a terrible nosebleed and is forced to spend the night at Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights opens with Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, writing in his diary about his visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. While entering Wuthering Heights, Lockwood notices but does not comment upon the date "1500" and the name "Hareton Earnshaw" above the principal door. Lockwood, an unwelcome guest, soon meets Joseph, a servant, and a pack of dogs that have overrun the farmhouse. Although he receives no encouragement from his host, Lockwood decides to make a return visit.

Welcome to Hear a Text, a podcast dedicated to voicing examination texts. Here is the voicing of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy-like person, from childhood to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant, running away when the young woman he loves decides to marry another. He returns later, rich and educated, and sets about gaining his revenge on the two families that he believed ruined his life. This podcast aims to encourage candidates to read the prescribed examination texts by voicing the texts. If there is any examination text you’ll like to hear on Hear a Text, you can send an email to [email protected] with the title of the text and the examination for which it has been prescribed. Join me in this voyage, let’s hear a text!

Welcome to Hear a Text, a podcast dedicated to voicing examination texts. My name is Funmi Cole, and I’ll be your anchor on this podcast, Hear a Text. Each season in the podcast will be committed to an examination text which will be read chapter by chapter and each chapter will be labeled under a different episode. This podcast aims to encourage candidates to read the prescribed examination texts by voicing the texts. If there is any examination text you’ll like to hear on Hear a Text, you can send an email to [email protected] with the title of the text and the examination for which it has been prescribed. Join me in this voyage, let’s hear a text!