The Read - Season 3

First aired: 11/17/2024 4 episodes

Rediscover the books you thought you knew. Acclaimed actors combine with classic literature, breathing new life into iconic stories.

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Episodes

1. 1984

Aired: 11/17/2024

A bleak dystopian future plays out before us as Royal Television Society award-winning actor Sacha Dhawan narrates George Orwell’s profoundly impactful and thought-provoking classic.

2. A Christmas Carol

Aired: 12/22/2024

Anne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge’s soul?

3. Wuthering Heights

Aired: 1/5/2025

Emily Brontë’s timeless classic set against the haunting backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors and narrated by award-winning actor Vinette Robinson.

4. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece Shearsmith

Aired: 2/2/2025

Who is the real monster? Robert Louis Stevenson’s defining gothic horror explores alter egos in this captivating narration that reimagines the 19th-century classic.