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Episode 10

Episode 10 of 10

Cora faces Ridgeway once more, and makes a final journey on the railroad. Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, read by Clarke Peters.

What if the underground railroad was a literal railroad? And what if each state, as a runaway slave was going north, was a different state of American possibility, an alternative America?"

Colson Whitehead's inventive novel follows Cora and Caesar as they escape from a Georgia cotton plantation and run north in pursuit of freedom, aided by the stationmasters and conductors of the Underground Railroad. This brilliant and at times brutal novel about the history of slavery and racism in America, won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017.

Read by Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Abridged in ten parts by Sara Davies. Produced by Mair Bosworth for 大象传媒 Audio in Bristol.
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in February 2017.

15 minutes

Last on

Sat 19 Oct 2019 02:00

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Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Clarke Peters
Author Colson Whitehead
Abridger Sara Davies
Producer Mair Bosworth

Broadcasts

  • Fri 3 Mar 2017 22:45
  • Fri 18 Oct 2019 14:00
  • Sat 19 Oct 2019 02:00

What was the Underground Railroad?

The secret network that enabled thousands of people escape from slavery.