Episode 7
Wistan is still fighting off Lord Brennus's soldiers and Edwin slips back to find him. Read by David Suchet.
In this time of forgetting, one elderly couple - Axl and Beatrice - are determined to hold onto memories of their life together and have set out to find their long-lost son.
They've been joined on their quest by Wistan, a mysterious Saxon warrior from the East, and Edwin, a young boy in peril. After an attack on the monastery where they were sheltering, the group have been separated. Wistan is still fighting off Lord Brennus's soldiers and Edwin slips back to find him.
David Suchet continues Kazuo Ishiguro's powerful novel - a moving, mysterious and deeply philosophical book about how societies remember and forget.
鈥淚t鈥檚 queer the way the world鈥檚 forgetting people and things from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness come over us all.鈥
The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping away from them. They live in an uneasy peace but memories of the wars that once ravaged the country are stirring.
Abridged by Sara Davies.
Producer: Mair Bosworth
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in March 2015.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
---|---|
Reader | David Suchet |
Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
Abridger | Sara Davies |
Producer | Mair Bosworth |
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- Tue 10 Mar 2015 22:45大象传媒 Radio 4
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