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Saturday-Night Theatre: Fahrenheit 451

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Ray Bradbury dramatised for radio by Gregory Evans
Sometime in the future the fireman's role has changed from stopping fires to starting them: the material being all books or printed matter of any kind. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which books burn. But Montag the fireman is beginning to have doubts about his role ...
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Ray Bradbury
Dramatised by:
Gregory Evans
Director:
Brian Miller
Montag:
Michael Pennington
Millie:
Pamela Salem
Beatty:
Peter Miles
Narrator:
Jonathan Newth
Clarisse:
Patience Tomlinson
Medic/Announcer:
Spencer Banks
Stoneman:
Michael Simkins
Woman:
Susan Dowdall
Faber:
Peter Tuddenham
Granger:
Hugh Dickson
Simmons:
Alan Dudley
Source: Radio Times

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