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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver: Episode 9

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Episode 9

BBC Radio 4 - Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver, Episode 9

Thatcher takes part in a public debate billed as Darwin versus Decency.

Thatcher takes part in a public debate billed as Darwin versus Decency. Read by Patrick Kennedy and Laurel Lefkow.

Supported by Mary Treat and his sister-in-law, Polly, Thatcher takes part in a public debate billed as Darwin versus Decency.

Barbara Kingsolver's novel interweaves the past and the present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.

It is a portrait of life in precarious times - when characters discover that the past has failed to prepare them for the future.

Alternating between two centuries, Kingsolver examines the personal and social shocks that ensue when people’s assumptions about the world and their place in it are shaken to their foundations.

Abridged by Sian Preece.

Read by Laurel Lefkow.

Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.

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Novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Abridged by Sian Preece. Read by Laurel Lefkow

Barbara Kingsolver's novel examines the personal and social shocks that ensue when people's assumptions about the world and their place in it are shaken to their foundations.

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