AuthorPhilip Pullman
NarratorFull Cast
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 2
Duration2h 26m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS4
PublisherBBC
VersionUnabridged
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the second book in Philip Pullman's trilogy 'His Dark Materials'. The story begins in Oxford, where Will Parry is desperate to discover the truth about his disappeared father. Climbing through an extraordinary window in the air, Will meets Lyra and her personal daemon - who we first met in 'Northern Lights'. Together they embark on a fantastical quest which mixes science, theology and magic to stirring and exciting effect.
Sally Lockheart Series Book 1: The Ruby In the Smoke
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesSally Lockheart, Book 1
Duration 6h 35m
Sally Lockhart's father was an unconventional man. When he dies suddenly on a voyage to the Far East, Sally receives a mysterious letter containing a strange warning. Soon Sally finds herself at the heart of a deep and dangerous mystery, one she is determined to solve at all costs. The first book in the Sally Lockhart trilogy.
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His Dark Materials Book 1: Northern Lights
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 1
Duration 11h 55m
Brought to you by Penguin.Now a major BBC series'Without this child, we shall all die.'Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon, Pantalaimon, always by her side.But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle - a struggle born of stolen childre...
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Philip Pullman
Duration 3h 29m
'I think of him all the time, and he thinks of me not at all...' This is the story of two brothers. One is impassioned and one reserved. One is destined to go down in history and the other to be forgotten. In Philip Pullman's hands, this sacred tale is reborn as one of the most enchanting, thrilling and visionary stories of recent years.
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Christopher Oxford
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 2
Duration 7h
Will is 12 years old and he's just killed a man. Determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance, he steps through a window into another world. There, he meets a girl called Lyra who, like himself, is on a mission. The second book in the `His Dark Materials' trilogy.
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Various
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 1
Duration 10h 45m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the first book in Philip Pullman's trilogy 'His Dark Materials'. Set in a world which is like, yet very unlike, our own, the story begins in Oxford. Children are disappearing from the streets, and when Lyra's friend Roger also vanishes she sets out to find him. The story mixes science, theology and magic to...
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 3
Duration 2h 26m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the third book in Philip Pullman's trilogy 'His Dark Materials'. Bringing the saga to a thrilling close, it reintroduces familiar characters such as Lyra, Will, Mrs Coulter and Dr Mary Malone, the latter of whom possesses the powerful amber spyglass. Finally, the outcome of the battle within the Kingdom of H...
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Michael Sheen
SeriesThe Book of Dust, Book 2
Duration 19h 45m
The second volume of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with...
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His Dark Materials Book 4: Lyra's Oxford
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Philip Pullman
Duration 47m
Lyra's Oxford opens two years after the conclusion of Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in the comfort and familiarity of Jordan College, where Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, sit on the sun-drenched roof looking out over all of Oxford. But their peace is shattered when a strange bird - a witch's daemon, on it's own - tumbles out of the sky, in...
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His Dark Materials Book 3: The Amber Spyglass
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 3
Duration 14h 50m
Brought to you by Penguin.From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major critically acclaimed BBC series.'We're going to the land of the dead and we're going to come back.'Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated.But they must find each other, for ahead of th...
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Sally Lockheart Series Book 2: The Shadow In the North
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesSally Lockheart, Book 2
Duration 9h 30m
The second book in the Sally Lockhart trilogy. Set in a veiled and misty Victorian underworld, the story of Sally Lockhart - expert financial advisor at Lockhart and Garland - and her allies, Jim and Fred, begins to unfold as news of the mysterious disappearance of the steamship 'Ingrid Linde' reaches the ears of the intrepid trio. An old lady has...
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