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

Book at Bedtime: Rose Tremain - Merivel: A Man of His Time: Episode 14

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Merivel - A Man of His Time

Episode 14

Rose Tremain - Merivel: A Man of His Time

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Rose Tremain - Merivel: A Man of His Time, Episode 14

Merivel must find a way to honour the promise he has made the dying king.

Merivel must find a way to honour the promise he has made the dying king, and then face his own calamity. 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 a crisis. Older and perhaps a little wiser, with his daughter now away at Court and his dearest friends ageing too, life on his Norfolk estate has ceased to satisfy. What comfort can he find in these years?

In today's episode: The King is dying. Merivel has one final task to complete for his beloved monarch. And fate has another calamity in store for our hero too. 

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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