Unseen Academicals
An Audible Original Drama
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About this listen
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, LtdBehind the scenes with the cast of Unseen Academicals
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I'm a huge Pratchett fan and was ready to critique, and did notice a few changes to characters which raised an eyebrow, and felt the narrator's comic timing was lacking at times. But despite being a rather loose interpretation of the book I really enjoyed it.
if you are a fan of radio drama and don't mind that the plot has been switched about then have at :)
But, I quite like adaptations that are unique unto themselves. Like every incarnation of the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.
That's the major caveat. if you want this to be a true and unadulterated telling of the book. you probably won't like it.
Different from the book but a good listen
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Brilliant storyline, cleverly crafted and very well performed by all performers in fact it’s so well done I’m worried about listening to other books which don’t have full casts.
I only wish it was longer, I could listen to this cast for ever performing Pratchetts work!
Totally recommended
Perfect Pratchett for existing fans and new
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Brilliant
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captivating
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Utterly brilliant
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His characters are so deep and mysteriosly twisted, you think youve just about su.med up a characters role in the book and DAM IT the Author completely switches his personality, his ethos even his elegances.
The football match went on a little long for me but I'm no fan of football.
Totally enthralling
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Superb
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Pratchett at his finest
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Yes, it totally diverts from the book (which I'd read a long time before) and I started rereading the book before writing this review. If you are one of the people who didn't like the Lord of the Rings movies and was further angered by the Hobbit, this will cause you apoplexy. It is *very* different.
But - and this is a big but - it's still a great story, well acted, expertly narrated by David Jason and good fun. Highly recommended.
Ignore the bad reviews. A splendid remix
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