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13 hours 23 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Aaron Tsindos, Socratis Otto & Zoe Carides
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Learn moreMay 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers, pitchforks and kitchen knives. During the bloody eleven-day battle, Alenka a young Greek woman saves the lives of two Australian soldiers.
Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka. They are forced to retreat with the tattered remains of the Allied forces over the towering White Mountains. Both are are among the 7000 Allied soldiers left behind in the desperate evacuation from Crete's storm-lashed southern coast.
Alenka hides Jack and Teddy at great risk to herself. Her brother Axel is a Nazi sympathiser
and collaborator and spies on her movements.
As Crete suffers under the Nazi jackboot, Alenka is drawn into an intense triangle of conflicting emotions with Jack and Teddy. Their friendship suffers under the strain of months of hiding and their rivalry for her love. Together, they join the resistance and fight to free the island, but all three will find themselves tested to their limits. Alenka must choose whom to trust and whom to love and, in the end, whom to save.
Kate Forsyth (Author)
Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller. Her most recent novel is
The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of 'The Minotaur in the Labyrinth' myth set in Crete during the Nazi invasion and occupation of World War II.
Other historical novels include Beauty in Thorns, a reimagining of 'Sleeping Beauty' told in the voices of four women of the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists and poets; The Wild Girl, the story of the forbidden romance behind the Grimm brothers' fairy tales which was named Most Memorable Love Story of 2013; and Bitter Greens, a retelling of 'Rapunzel' which won the 2015 American Library Association award for Best Historical Fiction.
Kate has a Doctorate of Creative Arts in fairy tale studies, and is also an accredited master storyteller with the Australian Guild of Storytellers. She has taught writing retreats in Australia, Fiji, Greece, and the United Kingdom.
Aaron Tsindos (Reader)
Aaron Tsindos is a WAAPA graduate, an accomplished actor, writer, singer, comic and voice over artist specialising in truthful performances for commercial, narration, character in comedic and dramatic work across multiple projects throughout Australia
His TV and Film credits include Total Control and Growing Up Gracefully (ABC), Mary: The Making of a Princess (Fremantle Media), Spin Out (Feature - Sony Pictures), No Appointment Necessary (Feature) and Crossing Paths (Feature).
Aaron's theatre credits include No Pay? No Way!, Muriels Wedding, Rosancrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The White Guard and Cyrano
De Bergerac for Sydney Theatre Company; Shakespeare in Love for Melbourne Theatre Company; Spamalot, Meet Me in St Louis, Big Fish and The Goodbye Girl at the Hayes; The Overcoat at Belvoir; Man with Five Children for Darlinghurst Theatre Company; Shakespearealism, The Importance of Being Earnest and Love's Labours Lost (Sport for Jove); The History Boys (Sydney Opera House), Stephen Sondheim's Assassins (forty five downstairs) and many more.
Zoe Carides (Reader)
Zoe Carides is an award-winning actor whose career has spanned four decades. As well
as being a talented narrator of many audiobooks including Bruny (Heather Rose), Act Of
Grace (Anna Krien), The Deceptions (Suzanne Leal) and Half Wild (Pip Smith), she's
worked on stage, screen and radio here in Australia and internationally. Theatre highlights
include Influence, Away, Tot Mom (Sydney Theatre Co), The Big Time and Murderers
(Ensemble), Caress/Ache (Griffin), Mike Leigh's Greek Tragedy (Belvoir and Edinburgh
Main Festival/ Theatre Royal Stratford East UK), Karen O's Stop The Virgens! (Vivid at
SOH), Half-Time (Hayes Theatre). TV/film highlights include The Pacific, Janet King, Top
of The Lake, Doctor Doctor, Rake, The Commons, Pieces of Her, Death In Brunswick,
Brilliant Lies, The Black Balloon, Not Suitable For Children, Mystery Road, Alex & Eve,
Interceptor. Zoe has also written/directed short films and songs, releasing an album in
2018.
Socratis Otto (Reader)
Socratis is one of Australia's most highly regarded and versatile performers. He is also a writer, voice over, producer and director.
A 2000 Nida acting graduate, transformative roles range from his ground-breaking turn as trans inmate Maxine Conway in global hit Wentworth, Charles Darwin in the ABC mini-series Darwin's Brave New World and as Silva Vaccarro in Baby Doll, for which he won the 2020 Broadway Award for Best Actor in a Play. Just some of his other screen credits include Home & Away, The Flood, Operation Buffalo, Paper Giants 2, Rake S2, Dr Blake Mysteries, All Saints, Matrix Reloaded and Wolverine.
He recently directed digital series Homespun and both theatrical production and virtual adaptation of The Hope Song which examines real life stories about mental health. He is currently writing a creative non-fiction account of the harrowing bullying experienced in his youth.
Kate Forsyth (Author)
Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller. Her most recent novel is
The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of 'The Minotaur in the Labyrinth' myth set in Crete during the Nazi invasion and occupation of World War II.
Other historical novels include Beauty in Thorns, a reimagining of 'Sleeping Beauty' told in the voices of four women of the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists and poets; The Wild Girl, the story of the forbidden romance behind the Grimm brothers' fairy tales which was named Most Memorable Love Story of 2013; and Bitter Greens, a retelling of 'Rapunzel' which won the 2015 American Library Association award for Best Historical Fiction.
Kate has a Doctorate of Creative Arts in fairy tale studies, and is also an accredited master storyteller with the Australian Guild of Storytellers. She has taught writing retreats in Australia, Fiji, Greece, and the United Kingdom.
Aaron Tsindos (Reader)
Aaron Tsindos is a WAAPA graduate, an accomplished actor, writer, singer, comic and voice over artist specialising in truthful performances for commercial, narration, character in comedic and dramatic work across multiple projects throughout Australia
His TV and Film credits include Total Control and Growing Up Gracefully (ABC), Mary: The Making of a Princess (Fremantle Media), Spin Out (Feature - Sony Pictures), No Appointment Necessary (Feature) and Crossing Paths (Feature).
Aaron's theatre credits include No Pay? No Way!, Muriels Wedding, Rosancrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The White Guard and Cyrano
De Bergerac for Sydney Theatre Company; Shakespeare in Love for Melbourne Theatre Company; Spamalot, Meet Me in St Louis, Big Fish and The Goodbye Girl at the Hayes; The Overcoat at Belvoir; Man with Five Children for Darlinghurst Theatre Company; Shakespearealism, The Importance of Being Earnest and Love's Labours Lost (Sport for Jove); The History Boys (Sydney Opera House), Stephen Sondheim's Assassins (forty five downstairs) and many more.
Zoe Carides (Reader)
Zoe Carides is an award-winning actor whose career has spanned four decades. As well
as being a talented narrator of many audiobooks including Bruny (Heather Rose), Act Of
Grace (Anna Krien), The Deceptions (Suzanne Leal) and Half Wild (Pip Smith), she's
worked on stage, screen and radio here in Australia and internationally. Theatre highlights
include Influence, Away, Tot Mom (Sydney Theatre Co), The Big Time and Murderers
(Ensemble), Caress/Ache (Griffin), Mike Leigh's Greek Tragedy (Belvoir and Edinburgh
Main Festival/ Theatre Royal Stratford East UK), Karen O's Stop The Virgens! (Vivid at
SOH), Half-Time (Hayes Theatre). TV/film highlights include The Pacific, Janet King, Top
of The Lake, Doctor Doctor, Rake, The Commons, Pieces of Her, Death In Brunswick,
Brilliant Lies, The Black Balloon, Not Suitable For Children, Mystery Road, Alex & Eve,
Interceptor. Zoe has also written/directed short films and songs, releasing an album in
2018.
Socratis Otto (Reader)
Socratis is one of Australia's most highly regarded and versatile performers. He is also a writer, voice over, producer and director.
A 2000 Nida acting graduate, transformative roles range from his ground-breaking turn as trans inmate Maxine Conway in global hit Wentworth, Charles Darwin in the ABC mini-series Darwin's Brave New World and as Silva Vaccarro in Baby Doll, for which he won the 2020 Broadway Award for Best Actor in a Play. Just some of his other screen credits include Home & Away, The Flood, Operation Buffalo, Paper Giants 2, Rake S2, Dr Blake Mysteries, All Saints, Matrix Reloaded and Wolverine.
He recently directed digital series Homespun and both theatrical production and virtual adaptation of The Hope Song which examines real life stories about mental health. He is currently writing a creative non-fiction account of the harrowing bullying experienced in his youth.
Kate Forsyth (Author)
Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller. Her most recent novel is
The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of 'The Minotaur in the Labyrinth' myth set in Crete during the Nazi invasion and occupation of World War II.
Other historical novels include Beauty in Thorns, a reimagining of 'Sleeping Beauty' told in the voices of four women of the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists and poets; The Wild Girl, the story of the forbidden romance behind the Grimm brothers' fairy tales which was named Most Memorable Love Story of 2013; and Bitter Greens, a retelling of 'Rapunzel' which won the 2015 American Library Association award for Best Historical Fiction.
Kate has a Doctorate of Creative Arts in fairy tale studies, and is also an accredited master storyteller with the Australian Guild of Storytellers. She has taught writing retreats in Australia, Fiji, Greece, and the United Kingdom.
Aaron Tsindos (Reader)
Aaron Tsindos is a WAAPA graduate, an accomplished actor, writer, singer, comic and voice over artist specialising in truthful performances for commercial, narration, character in comedic and dramatic work across multiple projects throughout Australia
His TV and Film credits include Total Control and Growing Up Gracefully (ABC), Mary: The Making of a Princess (Fremantle Media), Spin Out (Feature - Sony Pictures), No Appointment Necessary (Feature) and Crossing Paths (Feature).
Aaron's theatre credits include No Pay? No Way!, Muriels Wedding, Rosancrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The White Guard and Cyrano
De Bergerac for Sydney Theatre Company; Shakespeare in Love for Melbourne Theatre Company; Spamalot, Meet Me in St Louis, Big Fish and The Goodbye Girl at the Hayes; The Overcoat at Belvoir; Man with Five Children for Darlinghurst Theatre Company; Shakespearealism, The Importance of Being Earnest and Love's Labours Lost (Sport for Jove); The History Boys (Sydney Opera House), Stephen Sondheim's Assassins (forty five downstairs) and many more.
Zoe Carides (Reader)
Zoe Carides is an award-winning actor whose career has spanned four decades. As well
as being a talented narrator of many audiobooks including Bruny (Heather Rose), Act Of
Grace (Anna Krien), The Deceptions (Suzanne Leal) and Half Wild (Pip Smith), she's
worked on stage, screen and radio here in Australia and internationally. Theatre highlights
include Influence, Away, Tot Mom (Sydney Theatre Co), The Big Time and Murderers
(Ensemble), Caress/Ache (Griffin), Mike Leigh's Greek Tragedy (Belvoir and Edinburgh
Main Festival/ Theatre Royal Stratford East UK), Karen O's Stop The Virgens! (Vivid at
SOH), Half-Time (Hayes Theatre). TV/film highlights include The Pacific, Janet King, Top
of The Lake, Doctor Doctor, Rake, The Commons, Pieces of Her, Death In Brunswick,
Brilliant Lies, The Black Balloon, Not Suitable For Children, Mystery Road, Alex & Eve,
Interceptor. Zoe has also written/directed short films and songs, releasing an album in
2018.
Socratis Otto (Reader)
Socratis is one of Australia's most highly regarded and versatile performers. He is also a writer, voice over, producer and director.
A 2000 Nida acting graduate, transformative roles range from his ground-breaking turn as trans inmate Maxine Conway in global hit Wentworth, Charles Darwin in the ABC mini-series Darwin's Brave New World and as Silva Vaccarro in Baby Doll, for which he won the 2020 Broadway Award for Best Actor in a Play. Just some of his other screen credits include Home & Away, The Flood, Operation Buffalo, Paper Giants 2, Rake S2, Dr Blake Mysteries, All Saints, Matrix Reloaded and Wolverine.
He recently directed digital series Homespun and both theatrical production and virtual adaptation of The Hope Song which examines real life stories about mental health. He is currently writing a creative non-fiction account of the harrowing bullying experienced in his youth.
Kate Forsyth (Author)
Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller. Her most recent novel is
The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of 'The Minotaur in the Labyrinth' myth set in Crete during the Nazi invasion and occupation of World War II.
Other historical novels include Beauty in Thorns, a reimagining of 'Sleeping Beauty' told in the voices of four women of the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists and poets; The Wild Girl, the story of the forbidden romance behind the Grimm brothers' fairy tales which was named Most Memorable Love Story of 2013; and Bitter Greens, a retelling of 'Rapunzel' which won the 2015 American Library Association award for Best Historical Fiction.
Kate has a Doctorate of Creative Arts in fairy tale studies, and is also an accredited master storyteller with the Australian Guild of Storytellers. She has taught writing retreats in Australia, Fiji, Greece, and the United Kingdom.
Aaron Tsindos (Reader)
Aaron Tsindos is a WAAPA graduate, an accomplished actor, writer, singer, comic and voice over artist specialising in truthful performances for commercial, narration, character in comedic and dramatic work across multiple projects throughout Australia
His TV and Film credits include Total Control and Growing Up Gracefully (ABC), Mary: The Making of a Princess (Fremantle Media), Spin Out (Feature - Sony Pictures), No Appointment Necessary (Feature) and Crossing Paths (Feature).
Aaron's theatre credits include No Pay? No Way!, Muriels Wedding, Rosancrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The White Guard and Cyrano
De Bergerac for Sydney Theatre Company; Shakespeare in Love for Melbourne Theatre Company; Spamalot, Meet Me in St Louis, Big Fish and The Goodbye Girl at the Hayes; The Overcoat at Belvoir; Man with Five Children for Darlinghurst Theatre Company; Shakespearealism, The Importance of Being Earnest and Love's Labours Lost (Sport for Jove); The History Boys (Sydney Opera House), Stephen Sondheim's Assassins (forty five downstairs) and many more.
Zoe Carides (Reader)
Zoe Carides is an award-winning actor whose career has spanned four decades. As well
as being a talented narrator of many audiobooks including Bruny (Heather Rose), Act Of
Grace (Anna Krien), The Deceptions (Suzanne Leal) and Half Wild (Pip Smith), she's
worked on stage, screen and radio here in Australia and internationally. Theatre highlights
include Influence, Away, Tot Mom (Sydney Theatre Co), The Big Time and Murderers
(Ensemble), Caress/Ache (Griffin), Mike Leigh's Greek Tragedy (Belvoir and Edinburgh
Main Festival/ Theatre Royal Stratford East UK), Karen O's Stop The Virgens! (Vivid at
SOH), Half-Time (Hayes Theatre). TV/film highlights include The Pacific, Janet King, Top
of The Lake, Doctor Doctor, Rake, The Commons, Pieces of Her, Death In Brunswick,
Brilliant Lies, The Black Balloon, Not Suitable For Children, Mystery Road, Alex & Eve,
Interceptor. Zoe has also written/directed short films and songs, releasing an album in
2018.
Socratis Otto (Reader)
Socratis is one of Australia's most highly regarded and versatile performers. He is also a writer, voice over, producer and director.
A 2000 Nida acting graduate, transformative roles range from his ground-breaking turn as trans inmate Maxine Conway in global hit Wentworth, Charles Darwin in the ABC mini-series Darwin's Brave New World and as Silva Vaccarro in Baby Doll, for which he won the 2020 Broadway Award for Best Actor in a Play. Just some of his other screen credits include Home & Away, The Flood, Operation Buffalo, Paper Giants 2, Rake S2, Dr Blake Mysteries, All Saints, Matrix Reloaded and Wolverine.
He recently directed digital series Homespun and both theatrical production and virtual adaptation of The Hope Song which examines real life stories about mental health. He is currently writing a creative non-fiction account of the harrowing bullying experienced in his youth.