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4 Extra Debut. In a time of forgetting, one elderly couple are determined to hold onto memories of their life together. Read by David Suchet.
David Suchet reads Kazuo Ishiguro's powerful novel - a moving, mysterious and deeply philosophical book about how societies remember and forget.
βItβs queer the way the worldβs forgetting people and things from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness come over us all.β
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.
In this time of forgetting, one elderly couple - Axl and Beatrice - are determined to hold onto memories of their life together.
Abridged by Sara Davies
Kazuo Ishiguro is also author of Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day,
Producer: Mair Bosworth
First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in March 2015.
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| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | David Suchet |
| Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Abridger | Sara Davies |
| Producer | Mair Bosworth |
| Composer | David Ridley & Becky Ripley |
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Mon 2 Mar 2015 22:45ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4- Mon 21 Oct 2019 14:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 22 Oct 2019 02:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
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