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The Mechanical Hound doesn't seem to like Montag.

And his new neighbour, the 'crazy' 17-year-old, Clarisse McClellan, has disappeared.

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.