(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, Cambridge

5.40pm Book X

Read by Abigail Rokison, with Tamara Astor, Max Barton, Hannah Blaikie, Holly Cracknell, Suzanne Chrystal, Liane Grant, Phoebe Haines, Katherine Jack, Jess Labhart, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Rory Stallibrass, Alex Town, and Jessie Wyld

Book X Summary by Ruth Rushworth

God sends his Son to have just words with Adam and Eve, giving them their sentences - for Eve, pain in childbirth; for Adam, hard toil; and for both (ultimately) death.

Meanwhile in Hell, Sin and Death, feeling Satan's victory, build a bridge across Chaos to ease their passage into the mortal world. Satan returns victorious and relates his tale of success, just moments before he and his followers receive their sentence and are turned into snakes.

At the end of the book, Adam and Eve begin to reconcile with each other and to repent of their actions, offering up supplications to God to spare their offspring. God has promised that the Son will one day redeem man's wrong, but for the minute, things look pretty bleak for Adam and Eve.