The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Saturday-Night Theatre:
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Dramatised for radio by Barbara Clegg

Sat 25th Apr 1981, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

David is growing up in a society which will not tolerate any kind of mutation and ruthlessly destroys anything or anyone who deviates from the 'norm'.

His problems begin when he discovers that, although outwardly he is normal. he is different in another way.
Directed By: Michael Bartlett

David: Stephen Garlick
Rosalind: Amanda Murray
Petra: Judy Bennett
Michael/Alan: Spencer Banks
Katherine: Phillipa Ritcihe
Rachel: Jenny Lee
Anne: Kathryn Hurlbutt
David a child: Susan Sheridan
Sophie a child: Elissa Derwent
Mrs Wender/Sealander: Jennifer Piercey
Mr Wender/Spiderman: Robin Browne
Mary: Elizabeth Rider
Father: Peter Baldwin
Mother: Sonia Fraser
Axel: Michael Spice
Inspector: John Rye
Jacob: William Eedle
Skinner: Martyn Read
Sophie: Jane Knowles

A world paralysed by genetic mutation.
John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations.

In a post-apocalyptic world, one society has responded to the mistakes of the past by trying to please God, interpreting this to mean maintaining absolute genetic purity. In this sinister world, anyone deemed a ‘mutant’ is punished by exclusion and worse. At the centre of the story is a group of teenagers who differ from this enforced norm in a powerful way, and must keep their secrets for fear of what will happen if they are discovered and betrayed.

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