Earthsea
Full-cast dramatisation of the Ursula K. Le Guin saga
Ursula Le Guin's enduring fantasy saga set on the magical archipelago rich with wizards and dragons. Full-cast dramatisation made for BBC Radio 4 Extra, based on the novels A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan. Adapted by Judith Adams.
Hungry for power and knowledge, the young wizard Ged tampers with long-held secrets and releases a terrible shadow into the world. Meanwhile, Tenar is taken away from her home and family to become Arha, the guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan.Published between 1968 and 1972, the first three books of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea cycle (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore) are re-told across six intertwined episodes. Set on a vast archipelago of islands, where magic is a central part of life, they tell the stories of Ged and Tenar. Ged is a boy from the island of Gont, born with innate magical talent and a reckless nature, who releases a terrible shadow into the world and must risk everything in order to restore the balance. Tenar, a girl from the island of Atuan, is taken from her home and family to become Arha, the Priestess Ever Reborn, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. Deep within the Tombs, Ged and Tenar encounter one another and seek a way of bringing peace to the troubled archipelago.
- Shadow (35Mb)
- Schooling (34.6Mb)
- Lookfar (33.7Mb)
- The Ring (34.9Mb)
- Dragonfly (34.4Mb)
- The Other Earthsea (33.5Mb)
- A Bad Thing (36.1Mb)
- Tenar (37.1Mb)
- Tehanu (37Mb)
- The Mender (39.2Mb)
- The Princess (36.5Mb)
- Children of Fire and Earth (38.2Mb)
MP3 files hosted by archive.org.