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The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (Omnibus)

La Belle Sauvage

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Twenty-two years after the publication of Philip Pullman's NORTHERN LIGHTS, the author Philip Pullman 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.

Malcolm returns to see Alice at the Priory to try and discover who has been helping Bonneville.

Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes.

Producer: Allegra McIlroy

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

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