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music by [extract from cello concerto no. 2 in d, adagio] Joseph Haydn
producer Sue Dawson
read by Martin Jarvis
written-by Charles Dickens
Copyright (c) Orbis Publishing Ltd.
It was the best of times and the worst of times. In one of the most famous openings of any novel, Dickens masterfully presents the turmoil of the French Revolution, which is the backdrop for a novel of love, patience, hope, and self-sacrifice