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Dangerous Visions

Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias.

Dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. You will be disturbed, as you see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future.

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Never Let Me Go

Rachel Shelley

Kazuo Ishiguro

Lauris Morgan-Griffiths

Mair Bosworth

Dangerous Visions: Never Let Me Go: Episode 1

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Kathy looks back on her idyllic childhood at Hailsham.

Dystopian tale of love, friendship and loss. Kathy looks back on her idyllic childhood at Hailsham. From May 2016.

For Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season of dystopian storytelling our Book at Bedtime is Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel of friendship, love and loss. 

Kathy, Tommy and Ruth have only ever known the sheltered world of Hailsham, a secluded country boarding school. As they grow up, they begin to understand the true purpose of their isolated upbringing and the fate that lies in store for them. 

Ishiguro's alternative vision of late 1990s England is a disquieting meditation on what makes us human, whether we can escape the fate set out for us and how we each find meaning in our lives. 

Book at Bedtime is an abridged version of the novel.

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Read by Rachel Shelley
Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Produced by Mair Bosworth.

Dangerous Visions: Never Let Me Go

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Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed novel about students at an exclusive, strange private school.

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