Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone to Be Learn by Daniel Radcliffe, David Beckham, Others

Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone — the primary Harry Potter guide — can be learn chapter-wise by a number of celebrities, writer J.Okay. Rowling has introduced. That features Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, ex-footballer David Beckham, Unbelievable Beasts stars Eddie Redmayne and Claudia Kim, and actors Stephen Fry, Dakota Fanning, and Noma Dumezweni. Fry has beforehand lent his voice to the Harry Potter audiobooks, Redmayne and Kim play Newt Scamander and Nagini within the Unbelievable Beasts spin-off collection, whereas Beckham, Fanning, and Dumezweni are new to the Harry Potter membership.

An official announcement says to anticipate “extra surprises and particular appearances”. The Harry Potter readings are being provided to entertain these caught at house through the lockdown amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

Readings can be provided totally free in video and audio-only type so you’ll be able to select the format you favor. The previous can be obtainable at harrypotterathome.com, with the latter unique to the streaming service Spotify. The primary chapter of Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone, “The Boy Who Lived”, has been learn by Radcliffe himself. It is 25 minutes lengthy. New chapters — there are 17 in whole within the Thinker’s Stone — can be launched each week beginning now and till the top of June.

That is the second section of the “Harry Potter at Dwelling” initiative launched by Rowling and her company, The Blair Partnership, in early April, which kicked off with free audiobook and e book variations of “Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone”, obtainable totally free through Audible Tales and taking part libraries on the digital library provider OverDrive, respectively.

“Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone” has bought over 120 million copies since its launch in 1997, placing it on the prime among the many Harry Potter collection, which has whole lifetime gross sales of over 500 million, making it the best-selling guide collection of all time.

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