The Day of the Triffids

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John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids: 2. A Light in the Night

John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids

2. A Light in the Night

BBC Radio 4 Extra - John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids, 2. A Light in the Night

Bill finds a sighted companion, but can they survive the chaos of their surroundings?

London’s population is blinded. Bill finds a companion, but can they survive the chaos? Stars Gary Watson. From 1968.

'London was a city of the blind, the capital of a blind country in a blind world.'

Bill Masen finds a new companion, but can they survive the chaos of their surroundings?

John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel.  

Dramatised by Giles Cooper.

Gary Watson ..…. Bill Masen
Barbara Shelley …... Josella Playton
John Wyse ..…. Blind Man
John Pullen ..…. Radio Commentator

Music composed by David Cain. 

Producer: John Powell. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1968.

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