The Buried Giant 

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Book at Bedtime: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant: Episode 10

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Episode 10

Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant

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

Beatrice weakens as the couple still search for their son, but memories of their lives are stirring. Concluded 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 to find their long-lost son. 

On their journey they encounter knights, holy men and warriors. With the she-dragon Querig slain and memory restored, the land faces a dark future as old wounds are laid bare. With Beatrice weakening, the couple continue their journey to find their son but buried memories of their own lives are also stirring. 

David Suchet concludes 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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