The Read | S3E1: 1984

The Read | S1E1: The Lonely Londoners

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

The Read | S1E2: 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 Wales ...

The Read | S1E3: 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 | S1E4: 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 t...

The Read | S2E1: 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 | S2E2: Frankenstein

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

The Read | S2E3: The Remains of the Day: The Read with Steve Pemberton

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

The Read | S3E1: 1984

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

The Read | S3E2: 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 | S3E3: Wuthering Heights

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

The Read | S3E4: 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 c...