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Ursula Le Guin - Earthsea

Tales of wizards, dragons and magic by Ursula K Le Guin.

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Schooling

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Sent to Roke island's school for wizards, Ged's pride and recklessness prove fatal.

Made for 4 Extra. Sent to Roke island's school for wizards, Ged's pride and recklessness prove fatal. Meanwhile Tenar struggles. With Aysha Kala.

Ursula K Le Guin's enduring fantasy saga set on the magical archipelago rich with wizards and dragons. 

Based on the novels A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin. Adapted by Judith Adams. 

The young mage Ged is sent to the school for wizards on Roke Island but his pride and recklessness prove fatal. Meanwhile on Atuan, Tenar struggles to understand her role as guardian of the ominous Tombs. Her first official task will fill her with horror. 

Published between 1968 and 1972, the first three books of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea cycle (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore) are re-told here across six intertwined episodes. Set on a vast archipelago of islands, where magic is a central part of life, they tell the stories of Ged and Tenar. Ged is a boy from the island of Gont, born with innate magical talent and a reckless nature, who releases a terrible shadow into the world and must risk everything in order to restore the balance. Tenar, a girl from the island of Atuan, is taken from her home and family to become Arha, the Priestess Ever Reborn, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. Deep within the Tombs, Ged and Tenar encounter one another and discover a way of bringing peace to the troubled archipelago. 

Ged ..... James McArdle 
Tenar ..... Aysha Kala 
Young Ged ..... Kasper Hilton-Hillie 
Young Tenar ..... Nishi Malde 
Manan ..... Zubin Varla 
Kossil ..... Souad Faress 
Doorkeeper ..... Stephen Critchlow 
Nemmerle ..... Sam Dale 
Raven ..... Ayesha Antoine 
Jasper ..... Richard Linnell 
Vetch ..... Jack Kane 
Hand ..... David Acton 
Herbal ..... Mark Edel-Hunt 
Gensher ..... David Hounslow 
Dragon ..... Jessica Turner 

Original music by Jon Nicholls 

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.

Earthsea: Series 1

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