EPISODE · Jun 13, 2025 · 58 MIN
Milton 400 - Paradise Lost: Book 6
from Cambridge English Audio · host Faculty of English University of Cambridge
(N.B. These recordings were made during a live reading in late 2008 and are not professional quality. We've done what we can to clean them up, but please just bear in mind how old they are and how new we were!)This event was held on Thursday 23 October 2008 from around 9 am-9 pm, in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge1.55 pm, Book VIRead by: Paul HartleBook VI Summary by: David Parry (2008)Raphael carries on telling the story. Abdiel returns to heaven and finds that the angels are preparing for war. The good and bad angels go into battle. Satan's army is defeated. Night falls, and while Michael and the good angels sleep, Satan and the fallen angels are plotting. In the morning, battle begins again. Satan and his army have invented artillery, which throws the good angels to the ground. The good angels respond by throwing mountains. God then commissions his Son to win the war, which otherwise would be unwinnable by either side, so that the Son will be seen as Messiah, God's chosen king. The Son rides out in his chariot, and the evil angels flee from him and fall over the wall of Heaven into Hell. The Son returns in a parade of victory and is hailed by all the angels of Heaven.
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(N.B. These recordings were made during a live reading in late 2008 and are not professional quality. We've done what we can to clean them up, but please just bear in mind how old they are and how new we were!)This event was held on Thursday 23 October 2008 from around 9 am-9 pm, in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge1.55 pm, Book VIRead by: Paul HartleBook VI Summary by: David Parry (2008)Raphael carries on telling the story. Abdiel returns to heaven and finds that the angels are preparing for war. The good and bad angels go into battle. Satan's army is defeated. Night falls, and while Michael and the good angels sleep, Satan and the fallen angels are plotting. In the morning, battle begins again. Satan and his army have invented artillery, which throws the good angels to the ground. The good angels respond by throwing mountains. God then commissions his Son to win the war, which otherwise would be unwinnable by either side, so that the Son will be seen as Messiah, God's chosen king. The Son rides out in his chariot, and the evil angels flee from him and fall over the wall of Heaven into Hell. The Son returns in a parade of victory and is hailed by all the angels of Heaven.
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