Over the next 3 weeks BBC radio 4 will broadcast programs in the Dangerous Vision series.
Dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. You will be disturbed, as you see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future.
Episode 1
by Aldous Huxley
Radio 4's Dangerous Visions Season of dramas that explore uneasy reflections of the future opens with a Classic. It's 2116 and Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx are token rebels in an irretrievably corrupted society where promiscuity is the norm, eugenics a respectable science, and the drug Soma freely available. Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.
Blackout
The first of four specially-commissioned stories in the Dangerous Visions series.
Blackout by Julian Simpson
"Yesterday was the day when the phones stopped working."
But the phones are only the start, as London is plunged into an internet and power blackout. A woman starts a diary of the first days as she watches first the infrastructure and then the civilisation of her city begin to collapse.
Writer: Julian Simpson
Director: Julian Simpson
Reader: Nicola Walker
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4
Produce
by Joseph Wilde. Part of Radio 4's Dangerous Visions series. Unsettling drama set in the near future.
When a couple discover that they can't have a healthy baby naturally, Zenith Genomics seems to offer the solution: they can create a perfect, bespoke child, with every gene hand-picked. For a price. But the parents soon find that perfection brings its own problems...
A dark fable about parental expectation and the pressures of parenting in a competitive and commodified world.
Writer .... Joseph Wilde
Director .... Abigail le Fleming
Your Perfect Summer, On Sale Here
Ben Tavassoli, Oliver Chris and Claudie Blakley star in Ed Harris's twisted romance.
What will happen when VR games can deliver real love?
Theo has been booked to give twenty-four hour care to a gamer who's in an elective coma. The new immersive game he's playing simulates your first love affair.
But is it a simulation? Not to Theo...
.More programs to follow as they are broadcast
Replies
The last of four specially-commissioned stories in the Dangerous Visions series.
Inertia by Melissa Lee-Houghton
Somewhere in a near-future Britain, Mr McManus wakes up in hospital and discovers that the healthcare provision he's been paying for is not at all as expected.
Writer: Melissa Lee-Houghton
Reader: Tim McInnerny
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ajwsmra229qsn/DV3
Thank you Mike!
Kathy, Tommy and Ruth have only ever known the shelteredworld of Hailsham, a secluded country boarding school. As they grow up, they begin to understand the true purpose of their isolated upbringing and the fate that lies in store for them.
Ishiguro's alternative vision of late 1990s England is a disquieting meditation on what makes us human, whether we can escape the fate set out for us and how we each find meaning in our lives.
Book at Bedtime is an abridged version of the novel.
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Read by Rachel Shelley
Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Produced by Mair Bosworth.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ajwsmra229qsn/DV3
Spine
The third of four specially-commissioned stories in the Dangerous Visions series.
Spine by Anita Sullivan
Set in the not-too-distant future. A mother and son must run the gauntlet of high-tech security, and severe travel-restrictions, to leave their homeland in search of a better life.
Writer: Anita Sullivan
Reader: Martina Laird
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ajwsmra229qsn/DV3
The Kraken Wakes Part 2 of 2
Episode 2:
Following the remote, far flung lone alien attacks, Europe is now under attack too. When people fight back, the sea tanks withdraw, the attacks abate and there is a silence. It is short lived. A new form of attack takes hold. The weather is changing. Banks of fog smother the world. And the sea level is rising. Rivers begin bursting their banks, tracts of the country become uninhabitable and civil society starts to break down. The lights are going out all over the world. Silence.
Mike and Phyllis fight to survive as much of the world is submerged and most of the global population dead or displaced.
Performed 'as live' with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer: Prof Alan E Williams
Conductor: Clark Rundell
Director and Producer: Justine Potter
A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ajwsmra229qsn/DV3
The Fanglur and the Twoof
The second of four specially-commissioned stories in the Dangerous Visions series.
The Fanglur And The Twoof by Toby Litt.
With the mysterious Noma as their guide, a family set off with their herd across the desert in search of pools and lakes. But this is no ordinary desert. There is no sand - just human teeth.
Writer: Toby Litt
Reader: Farshid Rokey
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ajwsmra229qsn/DV3
Thank you!
by Aldous Huxley
The Dangerous Visions Season continues with the second part of Aldous Huxley's Classic dystopian tale . John the "Savage" has been brought back to a "civilised" world wherepromiscuity is the norm, eugenics a respectable science and the drug Soma freely available. Can he retain the ideal of freedom his childhood taught him? Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.
Director: David Hunter.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ajwsmra229qsn/DV3
Episode 1
John Wyndham's science fiction novel adapted by Val McDermid. Performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in a terrifying modern retelling of alien invasion and global flooding. Starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Higgins and Richard Harrington.
The floods have recently devastated parts of Britain. But what if the flood waters never subsided? What if an apparent meteor shower was actually the invasion fleet of an alien race, incubating in the ocean deeps until they were ready to begin their war of attrition against the human race? What if we were trapped on a drowning planet?
Val McDermid is a long-time fan of Wyndham's work and retells this dramatic novel in light of contemporary fears of climate change.
Recorded with a live orchestral accompaniment from the BBC Philharmonic. Composer Alan Edward Williams worked with Val to create a brand new 50's B movie inspired orchestral score that takes on the role of the unseen Kraken during the performance .
Episode 1:
Radio reporters Mike and Phyllis Watson are drawn into the story when a Northern Lights cruise spots five fireballs landing deep in the ocean. With other global sightings, social media is agog, for a while. But governments don't lose interest when Twitter does. And when naval expeditions link up with scientists to investigate the deeps there are more shocks in store. Scientists are baffled, though theories abound then a series of disasters makes it indisputable.
There is something down there and humans are under attack.
Performed 'as live' with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer: Prof Alan E Williams
Conductor: Clark Rundell
Director and Producer: Justine Potter
A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ajwsmra229qsn/DV3
News from Nowhere
Our Will Guest is a modern day, 21st Century man, travelling from 2016 to a future Utopia. The word utopia comes from the Greek ou-topos, meaning 'no-place' or 'nowhere'. There is uneasy antagonism between Will's 21st Century values and those of 'Nowhere'. But there is also love......Will goes on a time travelling voyage of discovery, finding a new love for society, as well as a woman.
Part of the Dangerous Visions BBC Radio 4 season.
Dramatist Sarah Woods
Producer Polly Thomas
Sound design Nigel Lewis
Production co ordination Lindsay Rees
A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ajwsmra229qsn/DV3
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