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4. JG Ballard

Episode 4 of 5

Writing about JG Ballard, Martin Amis describes a kindly man who created some of the most unnerving science-fiction. From 2017.

Martin Amis was one of the most celebrated of modern-day authors.

This collection rounds up his non-fiction pieces from 1986 to 2016.

Martin was a friend of the renowned 'SF: writer JG Ballard, apparently you never say 'Sci-Fi' for this genre.

Anyway, Ballard wrote vivid works such as The Drowned World, High Rise and Cocaine Nights.

Despite the unsettling and dystopian worlds Ballard evoked, full of menace and breakdown, Martin recalls a genial and welcoming man, as well as a great father to three children after his wife died.

Read by Bill Nighy.

Producer Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017.

15 minutes

Last on

Fri 6 Sep 202403:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Credits

ReaderBill Nighy
AuthorMartin Amis
ProducerDuncan Minshall

Broadcasts

  • Thu 5 Oct 201709:45
    BBC Radio 4 FM
  • Fri 6 Oct 201700:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Thu 5 Sep 202408:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 5 Sep 202413:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 5 Sep 202419:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 6 Sep 202403:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra