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Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature

Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and literature from around the world

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Book at Bedtime: The Book of Dust

Simon Russell Beale

Philip Pullman

Doreen Estall

Allegra McIlroy

Book at Bedtime: The Book of Dust: Episode 1

The Book of Dust

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, The Book of Dust, Episode 1

Across the river, the nuns at Godstow Priory have a mysterious new guest.

At the Trout Inn, three miles up the river Thames from Oxford, potboy Malcolm Polstead meets three men who are searching for a very special baby girl.

The Book of Dust, Part One: La Belle Sauvage

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

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Simon Russell Beale reads La Belle Sauvage, the first volume of Philip Pullman's trilogy.

Simon Russell Beale reads La Belle Sauvage, the first volume of a fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman, which returns the world of His Dark Materials.

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