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5. Appointment

Episode 5 of 15

2016: Willa clashes with her father-in-law when she takes him to a medical appointment. Read by Laurel Lefkow.

2016: Willa clashes with her father-in-law when she accompanies him to a medical appointment.

Barbara Kingsolver's novel interweaves the past and the present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.

It is a portrait of life in precarious times - when characters discover that the past has failed to prepare them for the future.

Alternating between two centuries, Kingsolver examines the personal and social shocks that ensue when people’s assumptions about the world and their place in it are shaken to their foundations.

Abridged by Sian Preece.

Read by Laurel Lefkow.

Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.

14 minutes

Last on

Sat 21 Jan 202303:00
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  • Fri 7 Dec 201812:04
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  • Fri 20 Jan 202307:00
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