Their mother’s book will provide a portal to transport them there on a quest to solve the mystery of their parents’ double-disappearance and reunite the family.

The show featured stand up, spoofs like his send up of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, and many of the characters he had developed during Summer Season, including Theophilus P. Lenny is a strong advocate for diversity, using his voice to give talks on the subject all over the world. His formative years were spent in working men's clubs, where his act was as a young black man impersonating white characters such as the Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em character Frank Spencer (whom he impersonated on New Faces). Following the mysterious disappearance four years ago of their father, twelve-year-old twins Bran and Fran are living with their mum in a small Midlands town. Henry was made a CBE in the New Years Honours list in 1998 for his services to comedy drama and Comic Relief.

However, stories are magical things – and it is not long before the pair discover that the Nine Dominions are of course real. Bran and Fran just love living with their mum, everyday is different as she Loves telling them daily stories. Fran and Bran end up on a quest looking for their parents who have disappeared - taken by hooked lightening. Max is sure that the new wind turbines on his island are sinister, but will anyone listen to a frustrated deaf schoolboy?

A] celebration of the vitality of storytelling, The Book of Legends made me laugh, made me teary, left me happy and hopeful. But then their mum goes missing, all her stories turn out to be a portal to another world, they're going to have a huge, magical adventure on their hands. He was the voice of the "shrunken head" on the Knight Bus in the 2004 movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and read the audio book version of Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys. When their mum mysteriously disappears in a lightning strike, just like their dad, the twins are all alone and know they have to stick together – if only to face their new guardian’s terrible cooking! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Tennille Rolingson, Jericho Prize [A] celebration of the vitality of storytelling, The Book of Legends made me laugh, made me teary, left me happy and hopeful. The audiobook is narrated by Lenny Henry and is vivacious and highly entertaining with Lenny Henry providing a wide array of voices . This book will be so useful for teachers to use as a good example of a modern adventure, with a twist. At least the stories Mum tells them, the tales of the Nine Dominions, provide some much-needed consolation. The following year he appeared with Norman Beaton in LWT's sitcom The Fosters, Britain's first comedy series with predominantly black performers.

Yet it turns out that her stories serve as a portal to a another world: the Nine Dominions Along the way they face evil princes, murder fairies, mud monsters and even Vikings!Lenny’s Production Company, Douglas Road, has achieved success in partnership with Burning Bright on the recently acclaimed The Commonwealth Kid documentary and has a host of other programmes in the pipeline. He has been a Trustee of the National Theatre since February 2016 and was awarded a Knighthood in 2015 for services to drama and charity. Lots of lovely characters appeared and they are all wonderful - apart from the most obvious villian! K. Audio for a review copy of the unabridged audiobook edition, both via NetGalley, of ‘The Book of Legends: What if all the stories were real?