AuthorPhilip Pullman
NarratorFull Cast
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 3
Duration14h 50m
CategoriesYoung Adult and Teen Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Key StageKS3
PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing
VersionUnabridged
Brought to you by Penguin.
From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major critically acclaimed BBC series.
'We're going to the land of the dead and we're going to come back.'
Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated.
But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned . . .
Read by Philip Pullman and a full cast of narrators.
© Philip Pullman 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
His Dark Materials Book 2: The Subtle Knife
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 2
Duration 8h 53m
Brought to you by Penguin.From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major critically acclaimed BBC series.She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld - Cittàgazze, where soul-...
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Michael Sheen
SeriesThe Book of Dust, Book 2
Duration 19h 45m
The second volume of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with...
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 3
Duration 2h 26m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the third book in Philip Pullman's trilogy 'His Dark Materials'. Bringing the saga to a thrilling close, it reintroduces familiar characters such as Lyra, Will, Mrs Coulter and Dr Mary Malone, the latter of whom possesses the powerful amber spyglass. Finally, the outcome of the battle within the Kingdom of H...
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Mark Gatiss
Duration 5h 9m
Brought to you by Penguin. The very first children's novel by Philip Pullman, Count Karlstien is a deliciously terrifying, wickedly funny adventure. All Souls' Eve is a night when nobody in the village of Karlstein dares to leave their homes. For that is the night that Zamiel, the Demon Huntsman, prowls through the forests in search of...
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His Dark Materials Book 4: Lyra's Oxford
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Philip Pullman
Duration 47m
Lyra's Oxford opens two years after the conclusion of Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in the comfort and familiarity of Jordan College, where Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, sit on the sun-drenched roof looking out over all of Oxford. But their peace is shattered when a strange bird - a witch's daemon, on it's own - tumbles out of the sky, in...
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Various
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 1
Duration 10h 45m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the first book in Philip Pullman's trilogy 'His Dark Materials'. Set in a world which is like, yet very unlike, our own, the story begins in Oxford. Children are disappearing from the streets, and when Lyra's friend Roger also vanishes she sets out to find him. The story mixes science, theology and magic to...
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Olivia Colman
Duration 26m
A story in the Arctic from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust by master storyteller, Philip Pullman and read by Olivia Colman. 'Lyra Silvertongue, you're very welcome . . . Yes, I know your new name. Serafina Pekkala told me everything about your exploits' Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon have left the events...
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His Dark Materials Book 1: Northern Lights
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHis Dark Materials, Book 1
Duration 11h 55m
Brought to you by Penguin.Now a major BBC series'Without this child, we shall all die.'Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon, Pantalaimon, always by her side.But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle - a struggle born of stolen childre...
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Philip Pullman
Duration 3h 29m
'I think of him all the time, and he thinks of me not at all...' This is the story of two brothers. One is impassioned and one reserved. One is destined to go down in history and the other to be forgotten. In Philip Pullman's hands, this sacred tale is reborn as one of the most enchanting, thrilling and visionary stories of recent years.
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Author: Philip Pullman
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Michael Sheen
Duration 12h 30m
Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in their canoe, La Belle Sauvage. But now as the rain builds, the world around Malcolm and Asta is, it seems, set to become increasingly far from ordinary. Finding himself linked to a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua, Malcolm is for...
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