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Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Episode 1

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Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Episode 1

Set in post-apocalyptic San Francisco, a bounty hunter is on a mission.

4 Extra Debut. Set in post-apocalyptic San Francisco, a bounty hunter is on a mission to retire rogue androids. With James Purefoy. Episode 1 of 2.

By Philip K. Dick
Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway

Philip K. Dick's cult sci-fi novel inspired the film Blade Runner. Set in a world devastated by nuclear war, a San Francisco bounty hunter is on a mission to retire a group of rogue androids. James Purefoy and Jessica Raine star in this new adaptation.

In post-war 1992 androids are becoming indistinguishable from human beings, even in their capacity to love, and bounty hunter Rick Deckard is tasked with locating and retiring a rogue group of escaped androids who have fled a life of slavery and returned to Earth.

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.

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Cult sci-fi. New adaptation of the book that became Blade Runner. With James Purefoy.

Jonathan Holloway dramatises Philip K Dick's cult sci-fi novel, which inspired the film Blade Runner.

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