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The Sanctuary Sparrow: Brother Cadfael Enhanced Audiotrack [Audio Cassette]

Ellis Peters (Author)

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Product Details

  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Acorn Media Publishing (January 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1569382689
  • ISBN-13: 978-1569382684
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 1.9 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 82 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,257,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Here are two mysteries solved by Ellis Peters's medieval monk, Brother Cadfael. The producers have lifted the sound tracks from the popular British TV version and added narration to clarify the action. Talk about recycling! Although one hears a bit more sound than one would like, the patchwork is accomplished fairly well. Whenever possible, the new clarifying narration is slipped over the TV sound track, rather than spliced in, so as not to disturb the flow of action. The narrator always speaks with tension appropriate to the dramatic content of the scenes, his text never exceeding what is absolutely necessary. Still, however carefully done, the tapes sound like what they are: TV with the lights out. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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4.0 out of 5 stars Derek Jacobi returns heard but not seen as BROTHER CADFAEL in a quite interesting plot-twister!, Aug 17 2005
By Anthony Scheinman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Sanctuary Sparrow: Brother Cadfael Enhanced Audiotrack (Audio Cassette)
I have always believed that the BBC made the finest adaptations for radio and television, and indeed the BROTHER CADFAEL series is no exception; Bert Coules (who most recently adapted Sherlock Holmes for BBC radio) and the fine actor Philip Madoc brought Cadfael to life in three adaptations which are well worth listening to if you can: MONKS HOOD, THE VIRGIN IN THE ICE and DEAD MAN'S RANSOM. However, Sir Derek Jacobi was an excellent Cadfael for television ... even if some of the teleplays didn't quite follow the plot of the original novels. Acorn Audio did something quite extraordinary when they turned the audio tracks of the four teleplays of the first Cadfael TV series into an audio series, adding a narrator to fill in the gaps and adding some slight commentary on the action which could not be seen on an audiotape; in doing so, they tightened up the narrative to keep the stories moving at a good clip so that the listener would not lose interest, and Stephen Flynn's narration is well-read and well-written. This story, while admitedly not one of my personal favorites in the series, has enough twists and turns in the plot to keep the viewer (or listener in this case!) rivetted, and I have to say in this recording's favor that the telepay follows the book very closely, more so than many of those in the TV series. I am sorry that Acorn Audio hasn't adapted the rest of the televised Cadfael stories into this format, and the only grievance I have is that the cast of characters is not read out at the end of each story (all we get to know is that Sir Derek Jacobi plays Brother Cadfael, when there are some fine actors in each of the stories). This is something entirely new, coming somewhere in between actual radio drama and books-on-tape, and I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the Brother Cadfael series. The listener will not lose anything by not seeing the action on a TV screen, and the acting you will HEAR combined with the narration will definitely provide an ejoyable listening experience.
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