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8. Pursuit

Beatty is dead, and there’s a live broadcast of Montag on the run from authorities. Dystopian classic read by Alex Jennings.

Beatty is dead.

Montag is on the run from the authorities and the chase is being broadcast live.

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.

15 minutes

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Wed 21 Feb 2024 21:30

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  • Wed 21 Feb 2024 21:30