The Book of Dust, Part One: La Belle Sauvage

Simon Russell Beale reads La Belle Sauvage, the first volume of Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy The Book of Dust from the BBC. Set ten years before the events of His Dark Materials, the novel explores the origins of that story. It opens in Oxford, at The Trout Inn, with a pot boy named Malcolm Polstead, and the whisper of a mysterious baby girl, hidden at the local convent, in the care of the nuns...