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Episode One

By Robert Harris. Father Fairfax, a newly-ordained priest, has been sent to the village of Addicott St George to bury Father Lacy. Read by Michael Maloney.

Father Fairfax, a newly ordained priest has been sent by the Bishop of Exeter to the village of Addicott St George to bury Father Lacy who has recently died. But a mysterious figure appears at the funeral casting doubt on the accidental nature of the priest鈥檚 death.

Author Robert Harris, the master of plotting, is best known for his best-selling fiction - The Ghost Writer, An Officer and a Spy, Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel. The Second Sleep is a totally absorbing and truly surprising thriller that takes a "historical futuristic" setting to comment on the present.

Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Reader: Michael Maloney
Producer: Karen Rose

A Sweet Talk production for 成人快手 Radio 4

14 minutes

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Mon 27 Jan 2020 22:45

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