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Chapter 1: Loomings

Read by Tilda Swinton
Artist: Marcus Harvey

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Chapter 2: The Carpet-Bag

Read by Captain R. N. Hone
Artist: Clara Drummond

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Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn

Read by Nigel Williams
Artist: Jack Ruskin

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Chapter 4: The Counterpane

Read by Caleb Crain
Artist: Pae White

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Chapter 5: Breakfast

Read by Musa Okwonga
Artist: Boyd Webb

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Chapter 6: The Street

Read by Mary Norris
Artist: Timothy Woodman

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Chapter 7: The Chapel

Read by Keith Collins
Artist: Oliver Clegg

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Chapter 8: The Pulpit

Read by Nick Atkinson
Artist: Fiona Banner

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Chapter 9: The Sermon

Read by Simon Callow
Artist: Susan Hiller

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Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend

Read by Stephen Fry
Artist: David Noonan

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Chapter 11: Nightgown

Read by Neil Tennant
Artist: Zaha Hadid Architects

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Chapter 12: Biographical

Read by Witi Ihimaera
Artist: Jeremy Wood

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Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow

Read by Mama Tokus
Artist: Alexis Rockman

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Chapter 14: Nantucket

Read by Nathaniel Philbrick
Artist: Charles Ogilvie

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Chapter 15: Chowder

Read by Peter Burgess
Artist: Samantha Sweeting

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Chapter 16: The Ship

Read by Chad Harbach
Artist: Alison Turnbull

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Chapter 17: The Ramadan

Read by Warren Cole
Artist: Dexter Dalwood

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Chapter 18: His Mark

Read by David Coslett
Artist: Brian Catling

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Chapter 19: The Prophet

Read by Mark Sealy
Artist: Mariele Neudecker

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Chapter 20: All Astir

Read by Avril Bellinger
Artist: Lucy & Jorge Orta

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Chapter 21: Going Aboard

Read by Kate Sparshatt
Artist: Catherine Haines

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Chapter 22: Merry Christmas

Read by Fran King
Artist: Matthew Benedict

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Chapter 23: The Lee Shore

Read by Paul Bonaventura
Artist: Alastair Mackie

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Chapter 24: The Advocate

Read by James Woudhuysen
Artist: Ann Hamilton

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Chapter 25: Postscript

Read by Fiona Shaw
Artist: Tony Grisoni

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Chapter 26: Knights & Squires

Read by Jake Phillips
Artist: Laura Ford

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Chapter 27: Knights & Squires

Read by Alyson Leeds
Artist: Mark Wallinger

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Chapter 28: Ahab

Read by Anthony Wall
Artist: Linder

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Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb

Read by Thomas White
Artist: Simon Faithfull

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Chapter 30: The Pipe

Read by David Cameron
Artist: David Austen

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Chapter 31: Queen Mab

Read by Maureen Burgess
Artist: Suzanne Treister

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Chapter 32: Cetology

Read by Martin Atrill
Artist: Chris Jordan

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Chapter 33: The Specksynder

Read by Cheryl Hurrell
Artist: Matthew Barney

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Chapter 34: The Cabin-Table

Read by Charlie Phillips
Artist: Ward Shelley & Douglas Paulson

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Chapter 35: The Mast-Head

Read by John Gullett
Artist: Robert Fearns

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Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck

Read by Jon Cleave
Artist: Sarah Pickering

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Chapter 37: Sunset

Read by Raphaella Fearns
Artist: Richard Baker

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Chapter 38: Dusk

Read by Jeff Lawson
Artist: Deborah Robinson

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Chapter 39: First Night-Watch

Read by Liberty Scarlett
Artist: Jason Martin

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Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle

Read by Clive Charlton
Artist: Pat de Groot

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Chapter 41: Moby Dick

Read by Blake Morrison
Artist: Judy Chicago

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Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale

Read by Will Self
Artist: George Shaw

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Chapter 43: Hark!

Read by Julie Christian Young
Artist: Jane Grant

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Chapter 44: The Chart

Read by Philip Gourevitch
Artist: Susan Collins

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Chapter 45: The Affidavit

Read by Anthony Caleshu
Artist: Paul Rooney

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Chapter 46: Surmises

Read by Philip Dodd
Artist: Wiebke Siem

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Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker

Read by Steve Carroll
Artist: Jeremy Millar

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Chapter 48: The First Lowering

Read by Tom Browne
Artist: Timothy Wilson

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Chapter 49: The Hyena

Read by Nigel Larcombe-Williams
Artist: Hondartza Fraga

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Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah

Read by Andrew Delbanco
Artist: Paul Hazelton

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Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout

Read by Alexis Kirke
Artist: Desmond Morris

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Chapter 52: The Albatross

Read by A L Kennedy
Artist: Mark Carwardine

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Chapter 53: The Gam

Read by Helen Rayner
Artist: Kathy Prendergast

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Chapter 54: The Town-Ho’s Story

Read by Joanna Hollingworth
Artist: Angela Hogg

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Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

Read by Martin Rosenbaum
Artist: Andrea Medjesi-Jones

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Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales

Read by Sir Christopher Frayling
Artist: Jennifer Modigliani

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Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth

Read by Angela Cockayne
Artist: Claudia Losi

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Chapter 58: Brit

Read by Benedict Cumberbatch
Artist: Maria Lalic

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Chapter 59: Squid

Read by China Miéville
Artist: Melanie Jackson

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Chapter 60: The Line

Read by Adam Low
Artist: Bill Woodrow

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Chapter 61: Stubb Kills A Whale

Read by Marcia Farquhar and Jem Finer
Artist: Mat Chivers

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Chapter 62: The Dart

Read by Richard Hawley
Artist: Matt Robertson

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Chapter 63: The Crotch

Read by Angela Hogg
Artist: Darren Almond

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Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper

Read by Rick Stein
Artist: Richard Ellis

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Chapter 65: The Whale as a Dish

Read by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Artist: Michael Hall

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Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre

Read by Chris Cook
Artist: Paul Bowen

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Chapter 67: Cutting In

Read by Mark Tosdevin
Artist: Michael Landy

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Chapter 68: The Blanket

Read by Andrew Brewerton
Artist: Paul Thomas

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Chapter 69: The Funeral

Read by Brian Patten
Artist: Thomas Merton

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Chapter 70: The Sphynx

Read by Dorothy Cross
Artist: Jessica Sarah Rinland

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Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story

Read by Georgia Zildjian
Artist: Marcia Farquhar

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Chapter 72: The Monkey-Rope

Read by Kieran Phelan
Artist: Ron Shuebrook

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Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale

Read by Susan Steinberg and Ian Bodenham
Artist: Stuart Brisley

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Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head

Read by Hal Whitehead
Artist: Cedric Christie

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Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head

Read by Ruth Leeney
Artist: Ramiro Fernandez Saus

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Chapter 76: The Battering-Ram

Read by Richard Sabin
Artist: Matt Kish

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Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun

Read by Jennie Winter
Artist: Anish Kapoor

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Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets

Read by David Piper
Artist: Vito Acconci

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Chapter 79: The Prairie

Read by David Rothenberg
Artist: Jonny Hannah

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Chapter 80: The Nut

Read by Maureen Freely
Artist: Angela Cockayne

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Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets the Virgin

Read by Margaret Guroff
Artist: Fathi Hassan

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Chapter 82: The Honor and the Glory of Whaling

Read by Tony de los Reyes
Artist: Adam Dant

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Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded

Read by Colin Bailey
Artist: Verne Dawson

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Chapter 84: Pitchpoling

Read by Cynthia Walsh
Artist: Jay Critchley

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Chapter 85: The Fountain

Read by Scott McVay
Artist: Jacco Olivier

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Chapter 86: The Tail

Read by Dennis Minsky
Artist: Jo Hay

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Chapter 87: The Grand Armada

Read by Gordon Weiss
Artist: Andrew Sutton

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Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters

Read by Tania Kovats
Artist: Neil Harman

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Chapter 89: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish

Read by Jane Sharp
Artist: Jessica Voorsanger

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Chapter 90: Heads or Tails

Read by Oliver Colville
Artist: Paul Evans

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Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud

Read by Meri Ratzel and Ben Haas
Artist: Nathalie Guinamard

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Chapter 92: Ambergris

Read by Michael Bracewell
Artist: Richard Deacon

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Chapter 93: The Castaway

Read by Carolyn Brown
Artist: Duncan Hannah

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Chapter 94: A Squeeze of the Hand

Read by Tony Kushner
Artist: Viktor Wynd

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Chapter 95: The Cassock

Read by John Waters
Artist: David Musgrave

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Chapter 96: The Try-Works

Read by Mark Ashurst
Artist: Mark Titchner

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Chapter 97: The Lamp

Read by James Balla
Artist: Natasha Kidd

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Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up

Read by Gail Cullen
Artist: Tony de los Reyes

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Chapter 99: The Doubloon

Read by Cyrus and Liam Patell
Artist: Mark Hampson

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Chapter 100: Leg and Arm

Read by Erica Wagner
Artist: Wim Delvoye

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Chapter 101: The Decanter

Read by Zeb Soanes
Artist: John Isaacs

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Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides

Read by Marina Warner
Artist: Jem Finer

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Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton

Read by Will Eaves
Artist: Dorothy Cross

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Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale

Read by Elizabeth Bradfield
Artist: Alice Herrick

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Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?

Read by Sir David Attenborough
Artist: Agnes Denes

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Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg

Read by Joyelle McSweeney
Artist: Guy Ben-Ner

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Chapter 107: The Carpenter

Read by Lydia Richards
Artist: Cyrus Larcombe-Moore

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Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter

Read by R. F. ‘Griff’ Griffith
Artist: Se Thut Quon

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Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin

Read by Richard Wood
Artist: Matthew Higgs

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Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin

Read by Dugald Ferguson
Artist: Oona Grimes

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Chapter 111: The Pacific

Read by Mark Carwardine
Artist: Clifford Ross

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Chapter 112: The Blacksmith

Read by Emma Ayres
Artist: Peter Sauerer

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Chapter 113: The Forge

Read by Eva Stalker
Artist: Valerie Favre

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Chapter 114: The Gilder

Read by Tom Maryniak
Artist: Rosie Snell

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Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets the Bachelor

Read by Stormy, Josiah and Nathaniel Mayo
Artist: Tanya Kovats

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Chapter 116: The Dying Whale

Read by Jenny Cuffe
Artist: Tony Oursler

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Chapter 117: The Whale Watch

Read by Dr Routledge
Artist: i-DAT

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Chapter 118: The Quadrant

Read by Horatio Morpurgo
Artist: Volker Eichelmann

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Chapter 119: The Candles

Read by Mary Martin
Artist: Colin Crumplin

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Chapter 120: The Deck Toward the End of the First Night Watch

Read by Novar Cane
Artist: Sarah Chapman

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Chapter 121: Midnight - The Forecastle Bulwarks

Read by Robert Fearns
Artist: Marcus Coates

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Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft - Thunder and Lightning

Read by Max Goonetillake
Artist: Colter Jacobsen

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Chapter 123: The Musket

Read by Nick Ryan
Artist: Philip Hoare

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Chapter 124: The Needle

Read by Stephanie Boxall
Artist: Tessa Farmer

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Chapter 125: The Log and Line

Read by Sheila Snelgrove
Artist: Theo Jansen

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Chapter 126: The Life-Buoy

Read by Paul Minot
Artist: John Wood & Paul Harrison

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Chapter 127: The Deck

Read by Tom Thoroughgood & Cyrus Larcombe-Moore
Artist: Antony Gormley & Peter Clegg

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Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets the Rachel

Read by Alice Herrick
Artist: Gavin Turk

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Chapter 129: The Cabin

Read by Rev. Nick McKinnel
Artist: Darren Lago

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Chapter 130: The Hat

Read by Diana Speed
Artist: Graham Day

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Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets the Delight

Read by Daniel Allen
Artist: Alex Hartley

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Chapter 132: The Symphony

Read by Cerys Matthews
Artist: Martin Thomas

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Chapter 133: The Chase – First Day

Read by Kerry Shale
Artist: John Chilver

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Chapter 134: The Chase – Second Day

Read by Roger Allam
Artist: Sean Landers

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Chapter 135: The Chase – Third Day

Read by James Naughtie
Artist: Stephen Grimes

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Epilogue

Read by Mary Oliver
Artist: Gary Hill

Copyright: Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University. The Moby-Dick Big Read is not for profit and cannot be sold, either as a whole or in part, without permission from Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, UK.