I would have considered this new offering as a fitting update. If this performance managed to produce a more believable portrayal of the female characters while still broadly maintaining the prior quality of male characterization. I chose Hogfather for my first purchase of the new spate of 'revised' performances in this genre because there are at least two good performances of the book, one by Stephen Briggs and by the cast of the video special. Only the Accountants and Lawyers for the commercial parties involved will think this new audio recording is even close to the same level of presentation as the previous version with Stephen Briggs.

Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this. The first book in the Discworld series – The Colour of Magic – was published in 1983. Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order. It's the last night of the year, the time is turning, and if Susan, gothic governess and Death's granddaughter, doesn't sort everything out by morning, there won't be a morning.

But it's just not right to find a seven-foot skeleton creeping down your chimney and trying to say 'ho, ho, ho'. When Death realizes that belief in the Hogfather is dangerously low, he decides to take on the job. Superstition makes things work in the Discworld and undermining it can have consequences.

'Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house…something was missing. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.' Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy ( Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz ( Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. The audiobook of Hogfather is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor Sian Clifford ( Fleabag, Vanity Fair, Quiz).

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