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Arabian Nights: Volume 1
- An Audible Original Drama
- Narrated by: Zahra Ahmadi, Raghad Chaar, Omid Djalili, Walles Hamonde, Mandana Jones, Adam Sina, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1
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Publisher's Summary
Please note this drama contains some explicit content.
This multicast dramatisation of Arabian Nights: Volume 1 is an Audible Original reenvisioning of three iconic tales - with a twist.
Adapted by the great Marty Ross, whose previous audio dramas include Romeo and Jude, Dark Shadows, Doctor Who and Treasure Island, listeners can expect to hear Scheherazade, Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves and Julnar of the Sea as they've never done before.
Step out of your comfort zone and indulge in the dark and fantastical world we've created. Travel with Mermen across the White City, go in search of treasures in hidden caves with Ali and Kasim and let yourself be guided by Scheherazade’s vision as she gives in to a deadly romance with Sultan Shahriya.
About the stories
In Scheherezade, a woman finds herself the object of desire of a powerful Sultan with murderous desires. Her only chance at saving her life is by using the one power she herself possesses: her gift for telling enchanting stories, the very stories that follow in this drama....
Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves tells the tale of an impoverished husband and wife whose lives change drastically when husband Ali discovers the cave where a local gang of bandits are hiding their treasure. A happy ending? Not quite, as the money brings dangerous complications in the form of the greed of Ali's brother and sister-in-law and the determination of the bandits not to be stolen from. Can Ali save himself - or will his wife, Marjana, have to do all the work - in this taut romantic thriller?
In Julnar of the Sea, a merwoman finds the love of a mortal King and they produce a son, Prince Badr Basim. Julnar will have to look out for her son, Badr, as, true to his undersea birthright, he seeks out the love of Princess Jawhera of the Merfolk. She is haughty and her father King Es Semendel positively hostile, casting Badr into a dramatic odyssey which will take him to the island of a beautiful sorceress who makes literal pets of her lovers. Can Julnar and her brother, Salim, find and save Badr in time?
The cast:
This drama features Omid Djalili (The Mummy, Gladiator, The Omid Djalili Show), Abraham Popoola, Adam Sina, Alyssa Kyria, Anoushka Rava, Atilla Akinci, Bamshad Abedi-Amin, Betsabeh Emran, Daniel Naddafy, David Ahmad, Gisele Payvandi, Ian Abeysekera, Jonathan Morrison, Mandana Jones, Michael Franklin, Mitra Djalili, Nezar Alderazi, Philip Arditti, Raghad Chaar, Richard Reed, Pezh Maan, Tara Jaffar, Walles Hamonde, Zahra Ahmadi and Hemi Yeroham.
What listeners say about Arabian Nights: Volume 1
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-01-16
excellent effort
The volume of the voices was uneven, I was often turning it up and down.
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- minette
- 2019-06-09
Remarkable memories
This is proof that a fine tale can be timeless…I grew up on these in the fifties in South Africa, listening to them in Canada.
The audible production was fascinating and kept me glued to the tale of Sheherezade…loved the sounds…loved the creativity.
Now for Number 2...
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- Owais M. Khan
- 2023-05-10
Loved every bit of it!! Amazing job.
Thoroughly enjoyed the stores from start to finish. The performance’s were superb from all the cast members.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-09-13
Great Audio Play
Certainly a story that initially wouldn't be comfortable in today's world, but shapes up the way anyone would hope it would. A great Audio Play with it's voice acting and foley.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-01-29
Not for kids, but excellent
So I thought of listening to this in the car with kids cuz you knkwZzzzz arabian nights. In the first minutes, sex scenes with well voiced moanings; I mean this thing is very sexual and very original in the sense of the original Arabian nights which was not a a kids genre. Well it’s excellent adult fiction and very well acted and the background music.
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- M Vatch
- 2022-11-05
Better than I had expected, and thoroughly enjoyable.
Like the Sultan, I was completely transported and transfixed by the storytelling in this collection. It was great to see some proper attention paid to some of the less known tales of the Thousand Nights and One Night. Very well performed and good sound quality.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-09-25
A fun adventure through the sands of time
A very fun trip through stories we already knew, or maybe new for some. Still, the voice acting is great and I enjoyed it thouroughly.
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- Eric R
- 2019-02-06
The NEW Arabian nights!
The stories are as I remember them with extra detail added. Great performances and sound-effects!
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- Tina B
- 2022-07-22
Amazing
Loved it. The cast and their performances were amazing. I caught myself laughing out loud a few times.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-09-12
very good 👍.
story is very old school , not on todays standards but if you get over that the stories are all great, amazing performance.
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