The Read

Series 3

20244 episodes

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

Episodes

E1
1984
2024-11-17 · 59m
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.
E2
A Christmas Carol
2024-12-22 · 73m
Anne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge’s soul?
E3
Wuthering Heights
2025-01-05 · 62m
Emily Brontë’s timeless classic set against the haunting backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors and narrated by award-winning actor Vinette Robinson.
E4
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece Shearsmith
2025-02-02 · 64m
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.