The Buried Giant 

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Book at Bedtime: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant: Episode 3

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Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant

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

Beatrice has guided them to a Saxon village for the night only to find a community in turmoil. 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 on a journey to find their long-lost son. 

Beatrice has guided them to a Saxon village where they can shelter for the night and where she hopes to consult a medicine woman about the pain that has been troubling her. On reaching the village, they find a community in turmoil.

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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