The Divine Comedy
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Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
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Dante Alighieri
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Stephen Wyatt
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Blake Ritson (Read by)
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David Warner (Read by)
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Full Cast (Read by)
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Hattie Morahan (Read by)
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John Hurt (Read by)
Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem.
Inferno: Thirty-five year old Dante finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in extreme personal and spiritual crisis. Hope of rescue appears in the form of the venerable poet Virgil, now a shade himself, who offers to lead Dante on an odyssey through the afterlife, beginning in the terrifying depths of Hell.
Purgatorio: Dante is led up Mount Purgatory by his guide. They encounter numerous souls who have embarked on the same difficult journey - one that will eventually lead to their spiritual salvation.
Paradiso: Dante's journey comes to a glorious conclusion as he is led by Beatrice, through the spheres of Paradise and into the presence of God himself. As they ascend, they encounter a number of souls who have also achieved blessedness.
Many years later, the older Dante reflects on the episodes from his life that have inspired his great poem.
©2014 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2014 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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Imprint: BBC Digital Audio
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Published: 18/09/2014
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ISBN: 9781910281437
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Length: 171 Minutes
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RRP: £9.00
Reviews
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In a glorious adaptation of The Divine Comedy, Stephen Wyatt takes a potshot at bankers, forced to sit forever on hot sands under fiery rain.
Moira Petty, The Stage
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He’s done a remarkable job. Out go the cantos and rigid rhyming structures. In comes a flowing narrative that loses none of the evocative imagery of the original. And it does Wyatt’s case no harm that the three central characters — Dante the younger, Dante the elder and Virgil, his ghostly omnipresent guide through hell, purgatory and paradise — are played by Blake Ritson, John Hurt and David Warner.
Jane Anderson, Radio Times
