![]() The result is in some ways better than the book on its own, in terms of providing access to the narrative and entertainment. Between her reading and Neil Gardner’s direction, it is easy to get drawn into the story. This is also a pre-mobile/tablet/Internet world! For some reason, the writing also uses American words such as gas for petrol and sidewalk for pavement.Ĭarolyn Seymour reads well and does several voices to characterise many characters. brands of car to tell you about Abby’s husband). There is much smoking of cigarettes and a tendency to drop in product names as shorthand for better prose (e.g. The writing is also a time capsule of the 1970s. It is impossible to listen without imagining how it would be live in the post-apocalyptic world of 1970s England. It is not just the story of individual survival, but also the meaning of society and culture in terms of survival over the medium and long term. In style this has the same gritty darkness as Death of Grass, though covers several timeframes from the immediate aftermath of the plague to many years later. The style is mostly action-focussing but also adds several reflective passages, giving a broader sense of future history. The action revolves around Abby Grant and her attempts to both find her son Peter and to create and maintain a community of survivors of a plague that wipes out most of the world’s population. The final book takes the story in a very different direction and ends with a twist that links to a second book, Genesis of a Hero by John Eyers. The first book follows the first TV series closely, with the second book covering more time but also bringing in themes from the TV show. The release covers six discs and is split (unevenly) into three books. This supplements their recent and newly written Survivors boxset, and two more are expected in 2015. Big Finish has just released an audiobook read by Carolyn Seymour (Abby Grant in the original TV series). The book was reissued in 2008 with a cover taken from the BBC remake the content was unchanged. ![]() In the 1970s, Terry Nation brought the show Survivors to the BBC and a novel was also released. AUDIO REVIEW: SURVIVORS / AUTHOR: TERRY NATION / PUBLISHER: BIG FINISH / STARRING: CAROLYN SEYMOUR / RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW ![]()
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