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1990-09 | Paradise Lost | live | Paradise Lost | 6:08 |
| Book I, line 1: 'Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 7:51 |
| Book I, line 128: 'O Price, O Chief of many Throned Powers' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 4:48 |
| Book I, line 242: 'Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 6:39 |
| Book I, line 375: 'All these and more came flocking; but with looks' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 5:31 |
| Book I, line 622: 'O Myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 5:35 |
| Book I, line 722: ' … Th'ascending pile' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 4:21 |
| Book II, line 1: 'High on a Throne of Toyal State, which far' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 7:32 |
| Book II, line 119: 'I should be much for open War, O Peers' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 6:46 |
| Book II, line 229: 'Either to disinthrone the King of Heav'n' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 4:43 |
| Book II, line 310: 'Thrines and imperial Powers, off-spring of heav'n' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 5:18 |
| Book II, line 390: 'Well have ye judg'd, well ended long debate' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 2:39 |
| Book II, line 430: 'O Progeny of Heav'n, Empyreal thrones' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 3:02 |
| Book II, line 506: 'The Stygian Council thus dissolved; and forth' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 5:52 |
| Book II, line 704: 'So spake the griesly terrour, and in shape' | partial | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | 8:38 |
| Book III Paraphrase: God, sitting on his throne | partial | John Milton | 1:54 |
| Book IV Line 1: 'O for that warning voice, which he who saw' | partial | John Milton | 7:24 |
| Book IX Line 1: 'No more talk of where God or Angel Guest' | partial | John Milton | 5:33 |
| Book IX Line 494: 'So spake the Enemy of Mankind, enclos'd' | partial | John Milton | 4:13 |
| Book V-VIII Paraphase: 'Meanwhile, Uriel, descending' | partial | John Milton | 2:17 |
| Book X Paraphrase: 'Man's disobedience known' | partial | John Milton | 0:38 |
| Book XII Line 553: 'How soon hath thy prediction, Seer blest' | partial | John Milton | 7:51 |
| Books XI and XII Paraphrase: 'Meanwhile Sin and Death rejoice' | partial | John Milton | 1:52 |
| Epigraph | partial | Philip Pullman, John Milton | 1:13 |
| Line 68: 'Father Eternal, thine is to decree' | partial | John Milton | 9:07 |
| Line 99: 'O Earth, how like to Heav'n, if not preferr'd' | partial | John Milton | 6:58 |
| Line 114: 'Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his face' | partial | John Milton | 3:18 |
| Line 172: 'No to th'ascent of that steep savage Hill' | partial | John Milton | 3:36 |
| Line 194: 'And Eve first to her Husband thus began.' | partial | John Milton | 3:48 |
| Line 229: 'Meanwhile ere thus was sinn'd & judg'd on Earth | partial | John Milton | 4:58 |
| Line 246: '............Thus was this place' | partial | John Milton | 6:20 |
| Line 270: 'To whom the Virgin Majesty of Eve' | partial | John Milton | 5:28 |
| Line 354: 'O Parent, these are thy magnific deeds' | partial | John Milton | 3:57 |
| Line 358: 'O Hell! what do mine eyes with grief behold' | partial | John Milton | 5:30 |
| Line 376: 'So spake the Patriarch of Mankind, but Eve' | partial | John Milton | 7:05 |
| Line 440: 'To whom thus Eve repli'd. O thou for whom' | partial | John Milton | 3:17 |
| Line 460: 'Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers' | partial | John Milton | 7:19 |
| Line 492: 'So spake our general Mother, and with eyes' | partial | John Milton | 3:09 |
| Line 567: 'To whom the guileful Tempter thus repli'd' | partial | John Milton | 2:37 |
| Line 612: 'Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt' | partial | John Milton | 3:40 |
| Line 679: 'O Sacred, Wise and Wisdom-giving Plant' | partial | John Milton | 4:13 |
| Line 745: 'Great are thy Virtues, doubtless, best of Fruits' | partial | John Milton | 6:56 |
| Line 850: 'The key of this infernal Pit by due' | partial | John Milton | 6:59 |
| Line 856: 'Hast thou not wonder'd Adam, at my stay?' | partial | John Milton | 2:35 |
| Line 896: 'O fairest of Creation, last and best' | partial | John Milton | 4:43 |
| Line 960: 'So Adam, and thus Eve to him repli'd.' | partial | John Milton | 4:43 |
| Line 968: 'T' whom Satan turning boldly thus. Ye Powers' | partial | John Milton | 5:05 |
| Line 1034: 'So said he, and forbore not glance or toy' | partial | John Milton | 6:18 |
| Line 1134: 'Would thou hadst heark'n'd to my words, & stay'd' | partial | John Milton | 3:16 |
| Paradise Lost (excerpt) | partial | John Milton read by Julian Glover | 3:16 |