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Terry pratchett's. The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents. Radio adaption. On 16th December 2002 this book was read by Omid Djalili . The adaptation that followed was first aired on BBC Radio 4 in the UK on 23rd August 2003. It is believed to have been broadcast as one episode.
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Terry pratchett's The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents
Radio adaption • On 16th December 2002 this book was read by OmidDjalili. • The adaptation that followed was first aired on BBC Radio 4 in the UK on 23rd August 2003. • It is believed to have been broadcast as one episode. • The only Famous Actor in the Radio Drama was David Tennant, who had starred in many movies before hand. • The script was Written by Peter Kerry who is best known for writing Emmerdale.
The books • The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is the 28th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in 2001. It was the first Discworld book to be aimed at the younger market • The Amazing Maurice is a cat who leads his 'Educated Rodents', as they go from town to town posing as a plague so that their accomplice, a teenage human piper named Keith, can "lure them all away" from the town, after which they share the money the piper receives. • The rats had gained intelligence from eating the waste from the rubbish tip behind Unseen University; Maurice gained it after eating one of the rats, before he was capable of realizing that they were no longer normal rats.