Opening Lines - Gaslight
In this special preview of the BBC Radio 4 series Opening Lines, John Yorke looks at Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gaslight. To hear more episodes from the series, just search for Opening Lines on BBC Sounds. A big hit on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue and an even bigger success on Broadway, Patrick Hamilton’s drama of the mental abuse of Bella Manningham by her husband Jack lives on, sometimes unacknowledged, as the source of the term Gaslighting - one person’s attempt to make another doubt t...
