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A contemporary adaptation of Emily Bronte’s 1847 classic Wuthering Heights is to air on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday – complete with swear words.<\/p>\n

Playwright Jonathan Holloway said he had introduced expletives into the tempestuous tale of romance “to shift the production to left field”.<\/p>\n

He said he wanted to “capture the shock” of the book’s original release.<\/p>\n

The BBC said it had used swearing to portray the “extremity of the lives” of Cathy, Heathcliff and other characters.<\/p>\n

A warning over its content will be broadcast at the beginning of the drama.<\/p>\n

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That’s what I wanted to elbow out, this idea that it’s the cosy greatest love story ever told. It’s not\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Holloway describes Wuthering Heights as “a story of violent obsession and a tortuous unfulfilled relationship”.<\/p>\n

“That’s what I wanted to elbow out, this idea that it’s the cosy greatest love story ever told,” he told the Radio Times. “It’s not.”<\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, said some words in the original text of Wuthering Heights had been crossed out because they were “too strong”.<\/p>\n

It was the only novel written by Emily Bronte, who died in 1855 eight years after its publication.<\/p>\n

Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon played Heathcliff and Cathy in a 1939 film version, while Tom Hardy appeared in an ITV1 adaptation in 2009.<\/p>\n

Another film version, directed by Andrea Arnold, is due out in September, with Skins’ Kaya Scodelario in the Cathy role.<\/p>\n

Wuthering Heights will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 2000 GMT on 27 March.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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