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Dangerous Visions

Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

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.

Dangerous Visions: Future Home of the Living God

Cherrelle Skeete

Louise Erdrich

Jeremy Osborne

Lisa Osborne

Dangerous Visions: Future Home of the Living God: Episode 10

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Dangerous Visions - Future Home of the Living God

Episode 10

Future Home of the Living God

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By Louise Erdrich. Cedar's baby is almost full-term.

By Louise Erdrich. Cedar is nearly full-term and confined in the heavily guarded Stillwater Birthing Centre.

By Louise Erdrich. The world is in crisis. Evolution has gone into reverse, affecting all creatures great and small, including the next generation of humans. Fewer babies - or their mothers - are surviving to full term and, of those babies born, many have been identified as belonging to a more primitive species of human. As governments take drastic action to limit the catastrophe, there has never been a more dangerous time to be having a baby.

Cedar Songmaker is pregnant. She is the adopted daughter of Minneapolis liberals. Determined to find out as much about her baby's make up as possible, she makes contact with her birth family on the Ojibwe reservation.

Episode 10
Cedar is nearly full-term and confined in the heavily guarded Stillwater Birthing Centre.

The author, Louise Erdrich, lives in Minnesota. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. She has also received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Writer: Louise Erdrich
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Reader: Cherrelle Skeete
Producer: Lisa Osborne

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By Louise Erdrich. Thriller set in a near future where evolution has gone into reverse.

By Louise Erdrich. Dystopian thriller set in a near future where evolution has gone into reverse. Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. Read by Cherrelle Skeete.

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