Fahrenheit 451 (BBC Radio - Full Cast Dramatization)
From BBC Radio 4 Extra. Written by Ray Bradbury. Full-cast dramatisation, Dramatised by Gregory Evans. Dark futuristic tale starring Michael Pennington. Sun 12 Feb 2012 Firefighters in the future no longer stop fires, but start them - by burning books. In a future where books are banned to control individual thought, a man employed to burn them begins to question the practice.
Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed … Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery. Nor was it exactly oiling his way up the ladder to hunt down the improbably pointed breasts of his boss's daughter when officially banned from horizontal delights by a nasty dose ... Falling back on his deep-laid reserves of misanthropy and guile, Morgan has to fight off the sea of humiliation, betrayal and ju-ju that threatens to wash over him.
Added by: Alexandrov | Karma: 18.46 | Fiction literature | 1 September 2010
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Yet another fairy tale retelling, this one a modernized take on Sleeping Beauty. Talia is a spoiled and bored princess who since she was old enough to understand what people said to her, has been told that she must avoid spindles, because of a spell placed on her during her christening. Talia doesn’t actually know what a spindle is, as all such things have been banned from the country, but on her sixteenth birthday, as she is wandering through the palace trying on dresses to find the perfect one for her birthday ball, and she finds an old lady who lets her play with her spinning device ...
