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Terry Pratchett: Mort: Episode 1

Episode 1

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A teenager is hired as Death's apprentice, and tries to alter the course of history.

Teenager Mort is hired as Death's apprentice and tries to alter the course of history. With Anton Lesser and Geoffrey Whitehead.

Hopeless young peasant Mort is hired as an apprentice to Death, and taken to his home beyond time and space to begin his training.

The fourth of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld. 

Dramatised in four parts by Robin Brooks. 

Narrated by Anton Lesser.

Mort    ......    Carl Prekopp
Death    ......    Geoffrey Whitehead 
Lezek    ......    Philip Fox 
Albert    ......    Phillip Jackson
Hames    ......    Jon Glover
Ysabell    ......    Clare Corbett
Princess Keli    ......    Alice Hart 

Director: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.

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On the lookout for an apprenticeship, young Mort comes across a man in a black cloak.

On the lookout for an apprenticeship, young Mort comes across a mysterious man in a black cloak, riding a white horse. Discworld adventure starring Anton Lesser.

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