Transformed into an old crone and forbidden from revealing her fate, Sophie seeks refuge as a cleaning lady in the floating castle that appears above her town, inhabited by the terrifying wizard Howl, “who amuses himself by collecting young girls’ hearts and sucking out their souls”. It follows young Sophie, who can charm life into hats, after she is cursed by the Witch of the Waste. I thought of Rita when I heard the BBC had adapted Diana Wynne Jones’s 1986 novel Howl’s Moving Castle into an hour-long Christmas radio play. How does one translate the weirdness and wonder of fantasy into accessible drama? As the eponymous heroine confidently tells her tutor in Willy Russell’s classic Educating Rita, the answer is simple: “Do it on the radio.”
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