John Hersey's ground-breaking account of the bombing of Hiroshima that brought the world face to face with the human reality of nuclear war. Told through the voices of six survivors, this powerful and unflinching retelling includes detailed accounts of the injury, loss, courage and consequence of that morning in August 1945.Written after two weeks spent interviewing citizens in the devastated city, the article was originally published in The New Yorker in 1946 under tight secrecy, due to U.S. suppression of the bomb’s long-term effects. It sold out rapidly and helped shift public understanding from triumphalist narratives to the harrowing human cost of nuclear war.Hailed by New York University as the most important work of journalism in the 20th century, Hiroshima remains a moving testament to the power of bearing witness.Hersey focuses his account on six of the survivors he interviewed. Miss Toshiko Sasaki; Dr. Masakazu Fujii; Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge; Dr Terufumi Sasaki; Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto.Part One takes us through the morning of the bombing and its immediate aftermath.Read by:
Akie Kotabe
Ami Okumura Jones
Dai Tabuchi
Kae Alexander
Mark Edel-Hunt
Matt McCooeyDirected by Anne Isger
Sound by Andy Garratt
Production co-ordination by Sara Benaim and Jon PowellA BBC Studios Audio Production
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Faith, Hope and Glory Series 7 - Hope and Jean
As Hope faces an unexpected medical scare, she sets her heart on reconnecting with her long-lost daughter — but secrets from the past threaten to derail her plans. Meanwhile, Jean embarks on her own emotional quest to confront her birth mother. Old wounds resurface, loyalties are tested, and a quiet family life begins to crack open in unexpected ways.Hope . . . . . Danielle Vitalis
Faith . . . . . Shiloh Coke
Jean . . . . . Cecilia Appiah
Elizabeth . . . . . Tessa Peake-Jones
Doctor . . . . . Jason Barnett
Ophelia . . . . . Marilyn Nnadebe
Sheila . . . . . Keziah JosephWriter: Carol Russell
Director: Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
Producer: Patricia Cumper
Production Co-Ordinators: Maggie Olgiati and Jenny Mendez
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Unicorn
Comedy drama by Alan Harris.When Tyree's dad falls ill, he goes back to the valleys and tries to save the printing business. But Ty is dyslexic and there's no money in the town. Things go from bad to worse until a strange man walks into the printers with a wedding invitation.CASTTyree - Darren EvansBeatrice - Laila AljShawna - Caitlin GriffithsObi - John RowleyProduction Coordinator: Eleri McAuliffeSound Design: Nigel LewisProducer: John NortonA BBC Audio Wales Production
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Summer by Edith Wharton
Reader: Lydia Wilson
Writer: Edith Wharton was famous for her novels including The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence, for which she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1921.
Abridger: Julian Wilkinson
Producer: Justine Willett
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The Kiss
Catrin is living the dream. A stolen weekend in Paris with her younger lover. So why is she struggling to enjoy herself? An original short story by Francesca Rhydderch, read by Carys Eleri.Production Co-Ordinator.....Eleri Sydney McAuliffeSound Design.....Nigel LewisProducer......Ryan HooperA BBC Audio Wales production
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