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Episode 3

Malcolm is shaken by news of a missing academic and soon faces a new threat with the sinister arrival of the League of St Alexander.

The Book of Dust, Part One: La Belle Sauvage

Twenty two years after the publication of Philip Pullman's NORTHERN LIGHTS, the author returns 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...

15 minutes

Last on

Wed 25 Oct 2017 22:45

Credits

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

Broadcast

  • Wed 25 Oct 2017 22:45

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