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Montag is too distressed to go to work, after what happened yesterday.

He's supposed to burn books, that's his job.

Burning things.

Not people.

Ray Bradbury's cult classic was first published in 1953 but it imagines a world very like today, in which sophisticated mass media are used to pacify and control people; love is a commodity; attention spans are short and police hunts are live entertainment.

Poetic, dazzling and shocking: Bradbury's vision of the future has become terrifyingly familiar.

Abridged by Sara Davies.

Read by Alex Jennings.

Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in July 2017.

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