Episode 2
An elderly couple set out to find their long-lost son. With hazy memories, it may take a long time. 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 to find their long-lost son. Their memory of him is hazy, as it is of many things. They know their journey may be a long one.
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.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | David Suchet |
| Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Abridger | Sara Davies |
| Producer | Mair Bosworth |
| Composer | David Ridley & Becky Ripley |
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