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Unseen Academicals

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: David Jason, Jon Culshaw, Mathew Horne, Josie Lawrence, Jaime Winstone
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Summary

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.

©2018 Terry and Lyn Pratchett (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
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a cracking adaptation - keeps the pace going!

this is a fantastic adaptation with great casting. they minimised the alterations and kept the heart. the only issue I had was with Angua's representation but she's only got a small part in the book and story.

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Brilliant

This is a brilliant book and the audio is truly amazing. It’s well worth the money. I have never been so inthralled. This is a master piece In the writing and in the audio.

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fantastic

I was totally hooked from the start, just fabulous, from writer & story teller . could not stop listening

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Interesting and fun listen

It is a very enjoyable story and dramatisation makes it even better. Rather interesting characters especially main ones

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Awesome

Brilliant story well read really enjoyed the story and imaginative really made me imagine them in my head

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The best

Brilliant voices well chosen. And of course the perfect story and words by sir Terry Pratchett

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Loved this!!

I thoroughly enjoyed this adaptation and I hope that eventually all Terry Pratchett's books are turned into these!

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Incredible

I have read all the Disc World offerings and this is on par with the others. I read Unseen Academicles when it first arrived, but to listen to it with all those recognisable voices was pure magic. More please.

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Really enjoy listening to Terry Pritchett

Really enjoy listening to Terry Pritchett, the production was excellent and served the story very well. Excellent :) xxx

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Loved it.

True, it's not the exactly the same as the book, but by The God's it's fun!
I really enjoyed it.

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