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La Belle Sauvage

Oxford, The Trout Inn: The tale of a pot boy named Malcolm Polstead, and a girl hidden in a convent. Read by Simon Russell Beale.

22 years after the publication of Philip Pullman's NORTHERN LIGHTS, the author returned 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...

Read by Simon Russell Beale.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes.

Producer: Allegra McIlroy

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in October 2017.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Mon 6 Dec 2021 01:00

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Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Simon Russell Beale
Author Philip Pullman
Abridger Doreen Estall
Producer Allegra McIlroy

Broadcasts

  • Sun 29 Oct 2017 14:30
  • Mon 30 Oct 2017 02:30
  • Sun 15 Dec 2019 14:30
  • Mon 16 Dec 2019 02:30
  • Sun 5 Dec 2021 13:00
  • Mon 6 Dec 2021 01:00