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Book at Bedtime: Rebecca Stott - The Coral Thief

Book at Bedtime: Rebecca Stott - The Coral Thief: Episode 1

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The Coral Thief

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Rebecca Stott - The Coral Thief

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Rebecca Stott - The Coral Thief, Episode 1

Heading to Paris for a new vocation, Daniel Connor is captivated by a mysterious woman.

August 1815. Heading to Paris for a new vocation, brilliant and ambitious young botanist Daniel Connor is captivated by a mysterious woman. Read by Dan Stevens.

Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. 

Daniel Connor, a brilliant and ambitious student, is in Paris to take up a new position with some of the leading scientists of the day. The chaos of an occupied city, a beautiful and enigmatic woman, and the swirl of revolutionary and heretical ideas about how life began create a heady atmosphere that is all too seductive.

On a hot August night, Daniel Connor is travelling towards Paris and a new vocation when he is captivated by a mysterious woman.

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Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in Paris in 1815

Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars

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