The Read | S01E03: The Day of the Sardine

The Read | S01E01: The Lonely Londoners

A creative performance reading of The Lonely Londoners that juxtaposes modern imagery and fascinating archive footage to reflect on h...

The Read | S01E02: On the Black Hill

A performance reading of the abridged novel On the Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin. Identical twin brothers grow up on a farm in rural Wale...

The Read | S01E03: The Day of the Sardine

A creative performance reading of a powerful novel of disaffection that charts a young man's uneasy passage into adulthood.

The Read | S01E04: A Vision of Loveliness

Performance reading of A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene. A darkly comic novel that reveals the seedy underbelly of London in...

The Read | S02E01: A Kestrel for a Knave

Christopher Eccleston narrates Barry Hines’s heartbreaking coming-of-age tale in this fresh take on a classic British novel.

The Read | S02E02: Frankenstein

Alex Kingston breathes life into Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic horror story.

The Read | S02E03: The Remains of the Day: The Read with Steve Pemberton

Heartbreak and longing are centre stage as BAFTA-winning actor Steve Pemberton narrates Kazuo Ishigu...

The Read | S03E01: 1984

A bleak dystopian future plays out before us as Royal Television Society award-winning actor Sacha Dhawan narrates George Orwell’s profoundly impactf...

The Read | S03E02: A Christmas Carol

Anne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge’s soul?

The Read | S03E03: Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë’s timeless classic set against the haunting backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors and narrated by award-winning actor Vinette Rob...

The Read | S03E04: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Read with Reece Shearsmith

Who is the real monster? Robert Louis Stevenson’s defining gothic horror explores alter egos in this...