Absolute pleasure these days from the reading by Anton Lesser of Hilary Mantel’s latest, The Mirror & the Light
By some margin, my favourite ‘spoken word’ voice of the current era, I’ve listened and re-listened to parts of this (a lot of the writing’s exceptional too, of course). I’m about half-way through...
Most conveniently caught via the three ‘omnibus’ episodes now available via Radio 4Extra:
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Side-thought: the search facility on “BBC Sounds” is lousy. I wanted to see if anything else with Anton Lesser was available. Searching all combinations of “Anton” and “Lesser” didn’t even produce the Mantel episodes, merely various “Anthony”s and a programme about the Lesser Black-Backed Gull
By some margin, my favourite ‘spoken word’ voice of the current era, I’ve listened and re-listened to parts of this (a lot of the writing’s exceptional too, of course). I’m about half-way through...
Most conveniently caught via the three ‘omnibus’ episodes now available via Radio 4Extra:
.
Side-thought: the search facility on “BBC Sounds” is lousy. I wanted to see if anything else with Anton Lesser was available. Searching all combinations of “Anton” and “Lesser” didn’t even produce the Mantel episodes, merely various “Anthony”s and a programme about the Lesser Black-Backed Gull
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