The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Don Quixote

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Amanda Abbington

Sylvester McCoy

Thom Tuck

Humphrey Ker

David Reed

Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Vivienne Acheampong

Julia McKenzie

The Penny Dreadfuls: Don Quixote

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Don Quixote

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Penny Dreadfuls, Don Quixote

Comedic take on Cervantes' classic tome starring Sylvester McCoy as Don Quixote.

4 Extra Debut. The comedy trio’s take on the classic tome, the quest of peasant Sancho and a would-be knight. Stars Sylvester McCoy. From 2018.

Published in two volumes in the early 17th Century, Cervantes' Spanish classic Don Quixote is famous as the world's first modern novel.

It's a ground-breaking piece of art that influenced countless generations of writers and at 800 plus pages of dense prose, one of the most unreadable novels ever.

Never fear! David Reed has read it so that you don't have to and condensed this mighty tome into an hour's rip-roaring entertainment. 

It's a meditation on the age of chivalry, insanity and truth. A quest of windmills, magic and donkeys. 

Join peasant Sancho and the man who thinks he's a Knight as they travel together locked together in a quest to save those who don't want saving and unravel enchantments which may or may not only exist in their minds.

Sylvester McCoy stars as Don Quixote.   

Sancho    ......    Thom Tuck
Narrator    ......    Amanda Abbington

All other roles played by The Penny Dreadfuls: 

Humphrey Ker
David Reed
Thom Tuck 

And: 

Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Vivienne Acheampong 

Producer:  Julia McKenzie 

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2018.

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