I'll eventually refund this version as there's little to no chance I'd ever choose to listen to this version instead of the original American version. If I didn't already own all the originals, I'd rush to purchase them before they are blotted from history by this inferior cash grab. It makes it worst that the original version has now been pulled from sale. The whole recording is in desperate need of a quality audio producer.

The narration is amateurish, and it's sounds as though no one bothered listening to it all the way through to catch the problems with missing full stops, mispronunciations, and just plain awful character voices. Why does this exist? Why not remaster the original recording (not that Hogfather has the issues with the tape transfers that some of old ISIS audio books have)? Why not have it re-recorded by Stephen Briggs, someone with a connection to Discworld and already beloved narrator of many books in the series? At best this version isn't as good as Nigel Planar's original. It seems like there was some sort of post-processing done for Death's voice at the beginning of the book which by the end they'd stopped bothering with. Sian's narration does improve as the book goes on, while Death's voice actor seems to get worse. She offsets this deficiency by varying volume from incomprehensibly soft to ear-achingly loud. Sian Clifford only has two 'voices' her own speaking voice, and a poor Tracey Ullman impersonation circa Robin Hood Men in Tights. The audio level is all over the place to the point of causing real pain as the volume spikes on headphones. 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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