BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th October & 2nd November 2019
Sci-fi with incredible humanity from brilliant feminist writer, Ursula Le Guin.
This is the first dramatisation of her 1969 novel, which is as groundbreaking in its approach to gender as when it was first published over 45 years ago.
Adapted in two parts by Judith Adams.
Director: Allegra McIlroy
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2015.
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th October 2019
In a snow-changed city in the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world, one young man prepares for the biggest mission of his life. Alone and unarmed, Genly Ai has been sent from Earth to persuade the world of Gethen to join The Ekumen, a union of planets. But it’s a task fraught with danger. Genly is shocking to the natives. This is a world in which humans are ambigendered – everyone can be a mother, and everyone can be a father.
First Minister Estraven is the only person who champions Genly’s cause, but their relationship is deeply incomprehensible and troubling. Genly’s life is at risk and he must decide who to trust.
Genly Ai ... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Estraven ... Lesley Sharp
Argaven ... Toby Jones
Tibe ... Louise Brealey
Faxe ... Noma Dumezweni
Ashe ... Ruth Gemmell
Ong Tot ... Adjoa Andoh
Shusgis ... Stephen Critchlow
Obsle ... David Acton
Driver ... David Hounslow
Guard ... Rhiannon Neads
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd November 2019
In the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world, two friends flee across endless snow plains on a journey that will take them to the edge of their physical and emotional endurance. The stakes are high – to save a world from war, and save their own lives.
Genly Ai has arrived from Earth onto the planet Gethen, a world in which humans are ambigendered - everyone can be a mother and everyone can be a father. In coming to terms with their otherness - and also their sameness - Genly must let go of everything he understood about his own identity.
Estraven ... Lesley Sharp
Genly Ai ... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Ashe ... Ruth Gemmell
Gaum ... Louise Brealey
Obsle ... David Acton
Shusgis ... Stephen Critchlow
Esvans and Asra ... Sam Dale
Sorve ... Ayesha Antoine
Doctor ... Rhiannon Neads
Skipper ... David Hounslow
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