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The Salvation

By: Justin Lockey
Narrated by: Ariyon Bakare, Rose Leslie, Olafur Olaffson, Toby Jones, a full cast
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Time Travel
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  • Trailer

    Trailer
    Oct 5 2023

    Led by an all-star cast featuring Ariyon Bakare, Rose Leslie, and Toby Jones, The Salvation beckons with an enigmatic blend of darkness, danger, and time-bending suspense. This science fiction thriller takes you on a journey where time, memory, and reality converge.

    David Miller, a war-scarred veteran grappling with PTSD, makes a startling discovery—his traumatic flashbacks are gateways to time travel. Recruited by the shadowy Fallen Arrow, David undergoes a surreal transformation into a time agent, wielding a unique power triggered by "The Lullaby." His mission: apprehending a rogue soldier wreaking havoc throughout history. As David navigates a secret war for time-altering technology, he must safeguard his newfound abilities from rival factions.

    The Salvation is a unique listening experience that blurs the boundaries of time. David’s perilous missions across pivotal moments in history, from the Great War to the Cold War and beyond, weave a mind-bending narrative that spans decades and challenges reality itself.
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  • Episode 1: In Dreams

    Episode 1: In Dreams
    Oct 5 2023
    When we meet David Miller, a veteran of the Afghan War, his PTSD from his time deployed has nearly crippled him, with his violent flashbacks continually dragging him back to the most traumatic moments of his tour. However, when David crosses paths with a shadowy organization called Fallen Arrow, it’s revealed to him that his flashbacks aren’t memories, but, in fact, a form of time travel. After an exhaustive and reality warping training, David is successfully turned into a fully deployable time agent.
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  • Episode 2: France, 1917

    Episode 2: France, 1917
    Oct 5 2023
    David’s world is rocked when he is tasked with tracking down and “neutralizing” a fellow soldier - and the only Fallen Arrow subject to achieve time travel - who has since gone rogue and is wreaking havoc through time. On his mission, David is thrust onto the front lines of WW1 where he must confront his own demons as well as the atrocities of war.
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About the Creator

Justin is a world-renowned musician, composer, and writer. He is the lead guitarist and producer of the multiplatinum-selling international band Editors. As a director, Justin has shot music videos for countless artists and bands all around the world.
Turning his skilled hand to writing, Justin was mentored by Abi Morgan and is now working on several projects across TV, film, and audio drama.

Ariyon Bakare
Rose Leslie
Toby Jones
About the Performer-Ariyon Bakare

About the Performer

Ariyon Bakare is a British actor, writer, and director who has been working across film, television, and theatre since graduating from Drama Centre London.
Most recently, Ariyon can be seen playing a new series regular in Mosquito Coast for Apple TV+. He can also be seen in Black Ops on BBC One; Karen Pirie on ITV & Amazon Prime; voicing Darktan in the Sky animation feature The Amazing Maurice opposite Emilia Clarke, Hugh Bonneville, and Gemma Arterton; and playing a leading role, Lord Boreal, in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials on BBC/HBO. The series garnered both critical acclaim and had an impactful reach in audience.
Ariyon was in Amazon’s six-part drama Good Omens, a horror/fantasy drama in which he played the role of Ligur alongside stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. He was also in Amazon’s fantasy-noir drama Carnival Row, which saw him star as Darius opposite Cara Delevingne and Orlando Bloom.
Ariyon starred as scientist Hugh Derry in Daniel Espinosa’s Sony Sci-Fi film Life opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson. The film, which premiered on the closing night of the SXSW Festival, explores the possibility of extraterrestrial life on Mars. Ariyon’s past film credits include the role of Blue Four in Rogue One, Greeghan in the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, Happy Ever Afters opposite Sally Hawkins, Full Firearms, The Soul of a Spy, The Secret Laughter of Women opposite Colin Firth and Nia Long, and After the Rain alongside Paul Bettany.
Ariyon is widely respected for his extensive and varied television work. His earliest leading credit was Mehuru, a slave in Bristol in the 1700s who falls in love with a wealthy married white woman, in the BAFTA-nominated BBC miniseries A Respectable Trade. Also for the BBC, Ariyon starred as Stephen Black in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and as jazz band manager Wesley in Stephen Poliakoff’s Golden Globe-nominated Dancing on the Edge opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, and John Goodman. Both series were hugely successful in the UK and the US on BBC America and PBS, respectively. Ariyon also played the lead role of Olaudah Equiano in the BBC television movie The Extraordinary Equiano. In 2016, audiences saw Ariyon in the crime drama New Blood and as Chief Supt David Burridge in Marnie Dickens’ miniseries Thirteen. In addition to acting, Ariyon has also written the TV movie Stealing Lives and written and directed multiple episodes of the long-standing drama Doctors.
Ariyon also has a well-earned reputation as one of the UK’s leading theater actors. He was nominated for an Ian Charleston Award for the role of Florindo in The Servant of Two Masters with the RSC. Most recently, Ariyon played Todd in Kate Hewitt’s Far Away at the Young Vic. Other credits include Preacher King in The Mountaintop, Look Smart in Dream of the Dog at Trafalgar Studios, and Tony in Riff Raff at the Arcola. Other performances include that of Mark Antony in Sean Holmes’ Julius Caesar with the RSC, Pompey in Greg Doran’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice.
Ariyon launched iCARE (www.ic4re.com), an initiative to raise Conversation About Racial Equality. The website is noted for being a judgment-free space and offers a way of communicating effectively, cordially, and respectfully when talking about race.

Rose Leslie

About the Performer

Rose Leslie graduated from LAMDA in 2008. In 2009, she won a Scottish BAFTA for Best New Talent for her role in New Town. The following year, she went on to secure her first major TV role as Gwen Dawson in the first series of the award-winning period drama Downton Abbey. Rose is perhaps best known for her role as Ygritte in series 2-4 of the worldwide phenomenon Game of Thrones. In 2015, Rose joined Idris Elba in the BBC’s critically acclaimed drama Luther. Following this, Rose starred in the sci-fi thriller Morgan alongside Kate Mara, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Anya Taylor-Joy. She also voiced the character of Red Riding Hood in BBC One’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s famed Revolting Rhymes. Rose starred opposite Ray Liotta in Sticky Notes, which premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Rose went on to star in the spin-off of the hugely popular US legal drama The Good Wife, The Good Fight. Picking up one year after the events of the final episode of The Good Wife, The Good Fight begins when an enormous financial scam destroys the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell (Rose) while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski)'s savings. The premiere episode aired to rave reviews and won its time period with 10.3 million viewers. Rose starred in series 1-3 of the critically acclaimed show.
Rose was most recently seen in BBC One’s submarine thriller Vigil. The six-part series told the fictional story of how the disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on board a Trident nuclear submarine created conflict between the police, the Royal Navy, and intelligence services. The series attracted an audience of 13.4 million viewers, making it the highest rated new drama launch across all UK channels since 2018 and the second-most watched drama of 2021. Vigil was a hit with viewers and critics alike and grew its audience across the series on both overnight and 7-day consolidated viewing data. Rose is currently filming the highly anticipated second series.
Last year, Rose was seen in Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery Death on the Nile alongside an all-star cast including Gal Gadot, Letitia Wright, Annette Bening, Sophie Okenedo, Tom Bateman, Emma Mackey, Dawn French, and Jennifer Saunders. Rose was most recently seen opposite Theo James in The Time Traveler’s Wife, HBO/Sky’s drama series based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger and adapted by Steven Moffat.

Toby Jones

About the Performer

Toby Jones is an award-winning actor of stage and screen. Known as one of Britain’s most recognizable and versatile actors, Toby’s many acclaimed film credits include the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the BAFTA-winning Berberian Sound Studio, The Hunger Games series, and his Emmy-nominated performance as Alfred Hitchcock in The Girl.
His notable television credits include the BAFTA-winning Detectorists, Danny Boy, the BAFTA- and Emmy-winning Sherlock, and Don’t Forget the Driver.
He is also an accomplished stage actor, with his Olivier Award-winning performance in the London production of The Play What I Wrote (and its subsequent Broadway run) and his Olivier Award-nominated turn in Uncle Vanya among his impressive list of stage performances.
Toby has most recently been seen in Will Sharpe’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder, Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light, Jon S. Baird’s Tetris, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. He will also be in Duke Johnson’s upcoming film The Actor.

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really good

keeps your attention very well and you connect with the characters fast fun listen overall

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great listening

great listening. action packed. interesting spin on time travel. very reminiscent of a good TRIPP!!

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First time listening to this kind of audible and I really enjoyed it!

The character voices were great. The story grabbed me from the start and kept me captivated the entire time. I will be looking for more like this!

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Great story

The story is well told but the nuance of jumping shouldn’t have been so… easy. Half the time I’m thinking there should be way more people with the ability. Acting was really good anyway and can’t wait for more.

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Truly exceptional execution breathing new life into the time travel theme

I rarely leave reviews because I listen to so many audiobooks, but I chose to with this one because it had the rare ability to leave me quite pissed at the end. I wasn’t angry about the story or the performance, I was angry that it was over!

Time travel stories have a tough time being original simply because they’ve been explored nearly to death over the years. While this one doesn’t really bring anything new to the time travel trope (random science nonsense gives folks the ability to travel back in time, listener just needs to check reality at the door and enjoy the ride) it does do an absolutely phenomenal job of bringing the story to life and introducing us to a well thought out group of characters that we come to love or hate, cheer for or against through fantastic storytelling.

If there’s one thing that sets this one apart from other great Audible titles, it’s the insanely GREAT performance of the full cast and the sound production team.

This is the best full cast, full effects performance in an audiobook I’ve ever heard, bar none. It’s even better than the Niel Gaiman Sandman Series and both seasons of the Impact Winter podcast.

Seriously, even if you’re not a sci-fi fan, give this podcast a try simply to enjoy the experience of a perfectly executed production. This is what all full cast audiobooks should be like and I’d be absolutely thrilled to see this make its way to a television miniseries or series.

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Glad I found this.

I enjoyed this very much. The acting was brilliant, the story was brilliant, and the premise was also, brilliant. It didn’t miss any chances to throw in the usual “straight white men” wokeness crap, but having our intrepid hero be a black man could make for “interesting” situations in pre 1960’s western society. All the same, loved it!

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Excellent story

This book was a great read. Great storyline and exciting. Kept me captivated the entire time. Loved the full cast.

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Great story telling

Dramatic with fights and futuristic/historical action. Loved the characters & storyline that pulls in the military, politics and futurism’s.

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Brilliant!

such a very easy story to fall into. everything from the story to the acting was enthralling and kept you wanting more

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Ditto to the other political rewriting reviews

I enjoyed the story a lot because I was able to look past the rewriting of real history. Given that this is a story about rewriting history, I figured I can pretend this took place in an alternate reality. But I have to dock points for that being in here and me having to escape the story to rationalize it that way. See the other reviews for examples.

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