Episode 8
1874: News of Thatcher's feud with Cutler over Darwin's views has reached town. Read by Patrick Kennedy and Laurel Lefkow.
1874: News of Thatcher's feud with headmaster Cutler over Darwin has reached the town. Thatcher is warned by renegade newspaper editor, Uri Carruth.
2016: Tig hatches plans for the future.
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.
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