
Unseen Academicals
An Audible Original Drama
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Narrated by:
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David Jason
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Jon Culshaw
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Mathew Horne
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Josie Lawrence
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Jaime Winstone
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By:
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Terry Pratchett
Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.
The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too).
As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.
This Audible Original multicast dramatisation is directed by the multiaward-winning Dirk Maggs, best known for his adaptations of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere for the BBC.
Starring Tom Alexander, Samantha Béart, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Mark Benton, Stephen Briggs, Stephen Critchlow, Jon Culshaw, Phil Davis, Ray Fearon, Tony Gardner, Edward Harrison, David Holt, Mathew Horne, David Jason, Josie Lawrence, Toby Longworth, Harry Myers, Maggie Service, Andrew Spooner, Steven Webb, Keith Wickham and Jaime Winstone.
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A fantastic adaptation of a wonderful book
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best production easiest to listen to
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I started but I stopped and then I never picked it up cuz I got busy with other things in life. A few years later we lost Terry Pratchett and I didn't truly like one of his last books but he was in declining health.
This book is just as good as any he has ever done and this full cast performance with Sound and Music is great if you ever get tired of the reading of a book and listen to this one and really enter the world of Discworld. this one is kind of like the formation of professional sports in this city in this volume .
We lost another one of the great humor fantasy writers. and one of the truly comic Wits of our 20th and 21st century.
one of the funnest and one of the last
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If you're a fan of the Discworld BBC Radio Plays this is the "book" for you! I started an Audible subscription JUST FOR THIS BOOK & I was not disappointed. I hope they choose to make more because I will buy them all!
One of my faves
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Best Original Ever!
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This Was Quite Decent
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It would be wonderful to know if Audible was working up full-cast performances of the pre Stephen Briggs discworld recordings that are currently unavailable in my region. Till then I will wait for the original recordings to be available to complete the collection.
Would love an UNABRIDGED full-cast performance
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Having said all that I found this audio drama very engaging once I suspended my disbelief and stopped getting hung up on thoughts like 'but this doesn't match the canon!'. All in all I found it to be an excellent re-work of UA for a full cast format, and I'm really hoping for more discworld audio dramas like this in the future. Full cast Night Watch adaptation anyone?
An enjoyable adaptation!
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Outstanding experience from discworld voice actors and terry pratchett. So glad I bought it.
Excellent book
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I'm the type that enjoys a classical adaptation, and this is not that. The tone and story of this adaptation are more like a mirror image of what Sir Terry wrote.
If wild, and imaginative adaptations are more your fancy, you may find this entertaining as it was performed well.
I would say this adaptation is along the lines of The Watch series that was theoretically based on Sir Samuel and his coworkers.
Something completely different
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