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In the 1999 unabridged audio production, Lyra was performed by the voiceover actress Jo Wyatt (as Joanna Wyatt).
In a 2003 radio adaptation, Lyra was voiced by child actress Lulu Popplewell.
The National Theatre in London put on a two-part, six-hour-long adaptation of the novels. The play ran twice, in 2003 and 2004. Lyra was played by Anna Maxwell Martin in the first run and by Elaine Symons in the second. In July–August 2007, Scottish Youth Theatre performed the Scottish premier of the production with Kirstie Steele and Sarah Helena Ord playing Lyra in parts one and two, respectively.
In The Golden Compass, the film adaptation of the first book, Lyra is portrayed by twelve-year-old Dakota Blue Richards, who won the role after beating out 10,000 other hopeful candidates. British singer/songwriter Kate Bush wrote and recorded a song "Lyra" with choristers from Magdalen College School in Oxford.
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