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Episode 5
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Montag resolves to quit his job burning books. But it’s a dangerous stand to take. Millie must be told. Read by Alex Jennings.
Montag has resolved to quit his job as a fireman.
No more burning books.
But it's a dangerous stand to take.
And he must tell Millie.
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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in July 2017.
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Fri 16 Feb 2024
21:30
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