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Start the Week: Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future

Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future

16/09/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future

Tom Sutcliffe talks to Margaret Atwood, Vicky Featherstone and AC Grayling.

Tom Sutcliffe talks to novelist Margaret Atwood, theatre director Vicky Featherstone and philosopher AC Grayling.

As Start the Week returns to Radio 4, Tom Sutcliffe talks to Margaret Atwood about her vision of the future. In the last of a trilogy of dystopian novels, Atwood charts the fortunes of a group of survivors after a man-made plague has devastated the world. There's more man-made corruption and savagery in Vicky Featherstone's first production as the new Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre: The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas is a dark morality tale. But the philosopher A C Grayling goes back to the Greeks to explore the best of humanity - friendship.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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