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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 were joined on their quest by Wistan, a mysterious Saxon warrior from the East, and Edwin, a young boy in peril, but the group have been separated.

They've learned that the source of the mist of forgetting is the dragon Querig, and Wistan has vowed to slay the beast. Axl and Beatrice also hope to kill the dragon but begin to fear a time when the mist lifts, and memory returns.

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.