The Buried Giant 

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Book at Bedtime: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant: Episode 8

The Buried Giant

Episode 8

Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant, Episode 8

David Suchet reads Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel The Buried Giant.

Axl and Beatrice's quest takes on new purpose, but it takes its toll on her and he’s afraid of losing her. Read by David Suchet.

In this time of forgetting, one elderly couple - Axl and Beatrice - are determined to hold onto memories of their life together and have set out to find their long-lost son. 

They were joined on their quest by Wistan, a mysterious Saxon warrior from the East, and Edwin, a young boy in peril, but the group have been separated. They've learned that the source of the mist of forgetting is the dragon Querig, and Wistan has vowed to slay the beast. 

The journey is taking its toll on Beatrice and Axl is afraid of losing her. 

David Suchet continues Kazuo Ishiguro's powerful novel - a moving, mysterious and deeply philosophical book about how societies remember and forget.

“It’s queer the way the world’s forgetting people and things from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness come over us all.”

The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping away from them. They live in an uneasy peace but memories of the wars that once ravaged the country are stirring.

Abridged by Sara Davies.

Producer: Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015.

Book at Bedtime: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant

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By Kazuo Ishiguro. Moving and mysterious story about how societies remember and forget.

By Kazuo Ishiguro. Moving, mysterious and philosophical story about how societies remember and forget. Read by David Suchet.

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