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JG Ballard - Concrete Island

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By JG Ballard. A cocky young architect is stranded when he crashes off the motorway.

By JG Ballard. A cocky young architect crashes his car down a motorway embankment. Will he make the passing commuters stop for him, or is he trapped?

By J.G. Ballard
Adapted by Graham White

Driving home one Friday rush hour, a cocky young architect crashes down a motorway embankment. At first he seems bound to be rescued, but as he fails to make the passing commuters notice him, he finds himself trapped on a strange, neglected island between the highways. Can this modern day Crusoe survive in a strange new world?

Directed by Mary Peate

Radio 4's Dangerous Visions Season:

The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died four years ago, his vision of what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and we have asked five leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to imagine what life might be like in the near future if everything goes wrong - and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author

Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the present reflected in the glass
of an uneasy future.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - JG Ballard - Concrete Island

A cocky young architect is stranded when he crashes off the motorway.

A cocky young architect becomes stranded when his car crashes off a motorway embankment. Stars Andrew Scott.

Driving home one Friday rush hour, a cocky young architect crashes down a motorway embankment. 

At first he seems bound to be rescued, but as he fails to make the passing commuters notice him, he finds himself trapped on a strange, neglected island between the highways. 

Can this modern day Crusoe survive in a strange new world?

Starring Andrew Scott.  

JG Ballard imaginative 1974 novel dramatised by Graham White.

Maitland    ......    Andrew Scott
Jane    ......    Georgia Groome
Proctor    ......    Ben Crowe
Catherine    ......    Joanna Brookes
Helen    ......    Philippa Stanton
David    ......    Matthew Watson

Director:  Mary Peate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2013.

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