Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
Play sample
  • Published: 4 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473531161
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 3 min
  • Narrators: Denis Quilley, Ian McDiarmid, Robert Glenister

Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained

Two BBC Radio 4 dramatisations

Buy from…
Apple Books Audible Google Play Kobo Libro.fm Spotify

The highly-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Milton's epic poem telling the story of the fall of man, plotted by Satan, and also its sequel, Paradise Regained.

The highly-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Milton's epic poem telling the story of the fall of man, and also its sequel, "Paradise Regained".

Out of chaos shall come order and out of darkness shall come light. Paradise is lost - and then regained.

John Milton's epic, biblically inspired poems are wonderfully dramatised for BBC Radio starring Denis Quilley as Milton, Ian McDiarmid as Satan and Robert Glenister as Christ, enhanced by specially composed music.

First published in 1667, Paradise Lost describes Satan's plot to ruin God's new and most favoured creation, Mankind, and recounts the temptation of Adam and Eve and their banishment from the Garden of Eden.

Paradise Regained, published in 1671, tells of the temptation of Christ by Satan as he wanders in the wilderness for forty days and nights.

Full cast:
Milton: Denis Quilley
Satan: Ian McDiarmid
Christ: Robert Glenister
Raphael: John Rowe
God: Godfrey Kenton
Adam: Linus Roache
Michael: Mark Straker
Abdiel/Andrew: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Nisroc: John Church
Simon/Angel: Matthew Morgan
Belial: Steve Hodson
Angel: David Thorpe
  • Published: 4 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473531161
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 3 min
  • Narrators: Denis Quilley, Ian McDiarmid, Robert Glenister
Categories:
Share…

About the author

John Milton

John Milton was born on 9 December 1608. He studied at St Paul's School and then at Christ's College, Cambridge. He wrote poetry in Latin and Italian as well as English and travelled in Italy between 1638 and 1639. He married Mary Powell in 1642 but their relationship quickly broke down and they lived apart until 1645. They had four children, three daughters and a son who died in infancy. During the Interregnum after the execution of Charles I, Milton worked for the civil service and wrote pamphlets in support of the new republic. He also began work on his masterpiece, Paradise Lost, as early as 1642. His first wife died in 1652 and he married again in 1656, although his second wife died not long afterwards in 1658. When the monarchy was restored in 1660 Milton was arrested but was released with a fine. In 1663 he married his third wife, Elizabeth Minshull and he is also thought to have finished Paradise Lost in this same year. He published the companion poem, Paradise Regained, in 1671.John Milton died on 8 November 1674.

Also by John Milton

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Paradise Lost
Areopagitica And Other Writings
The Essential Prose of John Milton
Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems
Paradise Lost and Other Poems
Poems of John Milton
See all