Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

While the vocal performances are quite good (especially the always brilliant Zara Ramm), and some details from the books are beautifully incorporated in this audioplay (Bairstow's ticking clock, Kleio's musical tones), there are many distracting changes to some seminal St. But the script of this adaptation just doesn't sit right when compared to the book series.

I am never the person to snobbishly complain about book-to-video adaptations and actually prefer the opportunity to see a different creative take on great stories. Mary's universe and want nothing but continued success and fame for author Jodi Taylor, including expansion to other forms of media if possible. Starring Gemma Whelan (SAG nominated, Game of Thrones, Gulliver's Travels), Ben Miles (SAG nominated, The Crown, V for Vendetta), Jonathan Bailey ( Broadchurch, Leonardo, The Mercy) and Zara Ramm (narrator of the original Chronicles of St Mary's audiobooks), this Audible Original production will transport you to iconic moments throughout history, from the Cretaceous period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. Because wherever these historians go, chaos is sure to follow. What begins as an academic exploration of events, such as the Peterloo Massacre, takes a dark and dangerous turn, and the historians of St Mary's soon learn that it's not just history they're fighting.įollow the tea-soaked disaster magnets of St Mary's as they rattle around history. At St Mary's the historians don't just study the past - they revisit it.

When Max, a recent ancient history graduate, is offered a mysterious job at St Mary's Historical Research Institute, she quickly comes to realise this isn't any old stuffy research library. 'So tell me, Dr Maxwell, if the whole of history lay before you.where would you go? What would you like to witness?'

Time travel meets history in this new drama adaptation by Marty Ross.

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor