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Book at Bedtime: Rose Tremain - Merivel: A Man of His Time

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Merivel - A Man of His Time

Episode 15

Rose Tremain - Merivel: A Man of His Time

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With the king dead and Margaret to be married, it is time to return to Bidnold.

With the king dead and Margaret to be married, it is time to return to Bidnold and to Will Gates at last. Read by Nicholas Woodeson.

Rose Tremain returns triumphantly to one of her best loved characters, in the long awaited sequel to her Booker short-listed best-selling novel, Restoration, published in 1989.

Seventeen years after the events related in Restoration, Merivel, a man of wit, wisdom and not a little passion, is facing his final years.

In today's episode: With the King dead and Margaret to be married, it is time to return to Bidnold and to Will Gates at last. 

The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson.
The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di Speirs.

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Rose Tremain's dazzling and witty sequel to her Booker short-listed novel Restoration

Rose Tremain's dazzling and witty sequel to her Booker short-listed novel Restoration, read by Nicholas Woodeson

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