We Need to Talk About Kevin - BBC Radio Drama torrent

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, dramatized fir radio by BBC Radio

Length about 2h:20m, mp3

SUMMARY

by Anita Sullivan

Adpated from the novel by Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver's 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' is a powerful, controversial novel about motherhood. Shortly before his sixteenth birthday Kevin Khatchadourian shoots dead eight class-mates, a teacher and a cafeteria worker. The novel is constructed from letters Kevin's mother Eva writes to her estranged husband Franklin. It debates whether nature or nuture is the strongest force shaping our destinies: "I am willing to accept responsibility. But with limits. To admit this is my fault and that is my fault but there -on the other side of the line- that, that is not." The novel won the Orange Prize for Fiction.

The novel was adapted into a ten-part drama for Radio 4 Women's Hour and broadcast in January 2008. It was produced by Karen Rose of Sweet Talk Productions, directed by Anita Sullivan. It was recorded and edited by David Thomas with sound design by John Thursfield. It starred Madeline Potter, Nathan Nolan and Richard Laing