The Blazing World

Read by Lucy Scott with Andrew Wincott

unabridged

Born in 1623 as the youngest child of a wealthy Essex family, Margaret Cavendish became a Maid of Honour to Queen Henrietta Maria before going on to marry the widowed William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. She was a prolific writer whose work encompassed a range of genres including poetry, moral tales, romance, scientific treatises, philosophy, drama and biography. Pepys wrote of her: ‘The whole story of this Lady is a romance, and all she doth is romantic’.

The Blazing World is part fiction and part feminist text in which a lady is shipwrecked and seeks to ensure that the Blazing World in which she finds herself is transformed into a Utopia – free of war, sexual discrimination and religious discord. It is a fascinating and extravagant combination of what the author herself calls ‘romancical’, ‘philosophical’ and ‘fantastical’.

Running Time: 4 h 07 m

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Digital ISBN:	978-1-78198-398-0
Cat. no.:	NA0534
Produced by:	Neil Rosser
Edited by:	Thomas Goose
BISAC:	FIC004000
BIC:	FC
Released:	April 22

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Lucy Scott

Lucy Scott trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her stage credits include Emma (Tricycle Theatre), Search and Destroy (New End Theatre) and Mansfield Park (Chichester Festival). Her television credits include Pride and Prejudice (BBC), Rosemary and Thyme (ITV) and Spooks (BBC). She also appeared in the film Tom Brown’s Schooldays with Stephen Fry. She has narrated many audiobooks.

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Andrew Wincott

Andrew Wincott is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy, and has performed in many leading UK repertory theatres. He has played Rochester in Jane Eyre, Alec in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina, the Actor in The Woman in Black, Jack in The Rivals, Tartuffe in Tartuffe, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and appeared in the Young Vic/Vienna Festival production of Sweet Nothings (based on Schnitzler’s Liebelei). For over 25 years he has recorded radio drama and book readings for the BBC, where he has twice been a member of the Radio Drama Company. Highlights include playing Steerforth in David Copperfield, Newland Archer in The Age of Innocence and Iachimo in Cymbeline. He has also created voices for countless video games and recorded hundreds of audiobooks, but he is perhaps best known as the voice of Adam Macy in The Archers and of Simon in the Sony Award-winning Clare in the Community for the BBC.

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The Blazing World

Read by Lucy Scott with Andrew Wincott

unabridged

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