The Eagle of the Ninth By Rosemary Sutcliffe – Enjoyable historical adventure story

This is a review of the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation (on 2 CDs), not the whole book.

I enjoyed listening to this story very much. It was a good adventure, with a well thought out plot. I often struggle to get sleep at night but after listening to one of the CD’s I found it easy to drop off as it allowed my mind to settle on one thing.

However, I did feel that the story doesn’t have any real depth and the characters are not very fully developed (although possibly this feeling is at least partly down to the fact that the book has been heavily abridged to fit into a 2 hour dramatisation).

It’s a fun historical adventure story, brought to life through the dramatisation. ( )

The Eagle of the Ninth is a thing of the falconine of gold.
It is a symbol of the force where romanic military forces exist.
It entered modern ages, and it was excavated from the place where this falconine was different from the historical fact though this hung when going to fight.

It was possible to read though the pronunciation of characters' names and names of land managed not to have been understood easily.
As for the talk, development is very interesting. It gets excited when reading. I recommends it. ( )

Intermediate-High,