The Second Sleep

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The Second Sleep, by Robert Harris: Episode Five

Episode Five

The Second Sleep, by Robert Harris

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By Robert Harris. The scholar Nicholas Shadwell holds a meeting.

By Robert Harris. Fairfax and Lady Durston finally encounter the heretic and scholar Nicholas Shadwell at a public meeting.

Father Fairfax, a newly ordained priest has been sent by the Bishop of Exeter to the village of Addicott St George to bury Father Lacy who has recently died. But a mysterious figure appears at the funeral casting doubt on the accidental nature of the priest’s death.

Author Robert Harris, the master of plotting, is best known for his best-selling fiction - The Ghost Writer, An Officer and a Spy, Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel. The Second Sleep is a totally absorbing and truly surprising thriller that takes a "historical futuristic" setting to comment on the present. 

Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Reader: Michael Maloney
Producer: Karen Rose

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