The Chrysalids and Survival by John Wyndham

[Riklaa]

The Chrysalids and Survival by John Wyndham

These two releases form part of the second wave of BBC Audiobooks’ Classic Radio Sci-Fi range and are adaptations of John Wyndham stories.

The Chrysalids was dramatised by Barbara Clegg in 1981 as a feature length ninety-minute play and Survival was dramatised by Pat Hooker in 1989 for the Fear on Four half-hour anthology series. Both were originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Set in the ultra-religious village of Waknut where abnormality is abhorred, The Chrysalids tells the tale of David and as he grows-up discovering that he is ‘deviant’. In Wyndham’s intriguing short story Survival a commercial space fight encounters a problem and the passengers and crew face a question of survival with a limited supply of food and a pregnant woman on board.

[Mike Hobart]

Survival is the closest Wyndham came to a real horror story. Chilling stuff.

[Anson (Bob) Roberts]

Rick:

I assume that this is the 1981 production?

[Riklaa]

Yep, The Beeb just recycles and recycycles it's stuff.

[Riklaa]

The Chrysalids and Survival by John Wyndham

Survival