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The Country of the Blind

Written by: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Olivier plays Nunez, a mountaineer in Ecuador, in the adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic short story The Country of the Blind, first published in 1904 in The Strand Magazine. One day, Nunez falls into a lost land where all of the inhabitants are blind.

This is one of the episodes of "Theater Royal", the only radio series in which Olivier starred and was first broadcast in 1952.

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  • 2019-10-15

Hard to listen, volume is variable and quality is bad

Volume changes abruptly, sound of musical instruments is way too loud comparing to voice. Quality of recording isn’t good, it feels like a theatre recording rather than an audiobook

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