22 years after the publication of Philip Pullman's NORTHERN LIGHTS, the author returned to the world of HIS DARK MATERIALS with a brand new trilogy.

LA BELLE SAUVAGE, read by Simon Russell Beale, is the first volume of THE BOOK OF DUST.

Set ten years before the events of HIS DARK MATERIALS, this novel explores the origins of that story.

We open in Oxford, at The Trout Inn, with a pot boy named Malcolm Polstead, and the whisper of a mysterious baby girl, hidden at the local convent, in the care of the nuns...

Read by Simon Russell Beale.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes.

Producer: Allegra McIlroy

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. Show less