Don Quixote

Published in two volumes in the early 17th Century, Cervantes' Spanish classic Don Quixote is famous as the world's first modern novel.

It's a ground-breaking piece of art that influenced countless generations of writers and at 800 plus pages of dense prose, one of the most unreadable novels ever.

Never fear! David Reed has read it so that you don't have to and condensed this mighty tome into an hour's rip-roaring entertainment.

It's a meditation on the age of chivalry, insanity and truth. A quest of windmills, magic and donkeys.

Join peasant Sancho and the man who thinks he's a Knight as they travel together locked together in a quest to save those who don't want saving and unravel enchantments which may or may not only exist in their minds.

Sylvester McCoy stars as Don Quixote.

Sancho ...... Thom Tuck
Narrator ...... Amanda Abbington

All other roles played by The Penny Dreadfuls:

Humphrey Ker
David Reed
Thom Tuck

And:

Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Vivienne Acheampong

Producer: Julia McKenzie

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2018.