Listeners should be prepared for some surprises. This prose translation of one of the earliest of the Grail stories is a corker of a medieval romance, and narrator Leighton Pugh makes the most of its tension and occasional flashes of humour and emotion.

Titles by Wolfram von Eschenbach Titles by Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival (unabridged) Reviews Titles read by Leighton Pugh Titles read by Leighton Pugh Against Nature (unabridged) L’Assommoir (unabridged) The Compleat Angler (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663 (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume II: 1664-1666 (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume III: 1667-1669 (unabridged) Germinal (unabridged) La Bête Humaine (unabridged) La Terre (unabridged) The Ladies' Paradise (unabridged) The Masterpiece (unabridged) Nana (unabridged) Parzival (unabridged) Poetics/Rhetoric (unabridged) The Republic (unabridged) Sartor Resartus (unabridged) Two on a Tower (unabridged) The Well-Beloved (unabridged) Leighton has been in five productions for the National Theatre, most recently The Lehman Trilogy (NT Live 2018–19, New York, West End).

Radio work includes the plays Murder by the Book and Scenes from Provincial Life for BBC Radio 4 and the voice of Heinrich von Kleist in the BBC Radio 3 documentary The Tragical Adventure of Heinrich von Kleist. Leighton Pugh trained at LAMDA, after studying Modern Languages at Queen’s College, Oxford.

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