<P>Kay and his foster-brother (known as the Wart) are living in the glorious castle of Sir Ector amid the wild and beautiful Forest Sauvage. But they are given a tutor - the magician Merlyn. <P>And so begins one of the most inventive and charming retellings of the Arthurian legend the first part of 'The Once and Future King'. <P>Through a series of adventures that involve being turned into animals an encounter with a very hungry witch and a meeting with the real Robin Hood Merlyn instructs his young charges in the ways of the world and broader wisdom too. <P>One of them will need it - the King has died leaving no heir and a rightful one must be found by pulling a sword from an anvil resting on a stone...<P>©2008 Naxos Rights International; (P)2008 Naxos Rights International