
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
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, LtdLoved it!
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This production of one of his hidden gems is highly entertaining. It's not just a reading, not just a cast - this is a show!
Brilliantly entertaining production!
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A travesty
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The voice actors give good performances, particulalry David Jason who has starred in 2 different good Discworld TV dramatizations. This adaptation, however, is rubbish.
Disappointing Adaptation
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I also thought the film score like music was overused to insist on a certain emotion in various scenes.
An adaptation doesn’t have to be entirely faithful to be enjoyable, but this one exaggerates the conflict, is not very funny and is not helped by the plodding pace of David Jason’s narration.
Disappointing adaptation
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Very disappointing especially for Pratchett fans
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Bad adaptation.
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