The Left Hand of Darkness: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Audiobook (Free)

The first ever broadcast dramatisation of Ursula Le Guin’s seminal science fiction novel.

With an alien globe in the center of an Ice Age, one guy prepares for the largest mission of his life. By itself and unarmed, Genly Ai continues to be sent from Globe to persuade the people of Gethen to join the Ekumen, a union of planets. But it’s a task fraught with danger.

Genly is shocking to the natives, for Gethen is a world in which humans are ambigendered – everyone can be a mother, and everyone could be a approximately The Left Hands of Darkness: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation father. Initial Minister Estraven may be the only one who champions Genly’s cause, but their relationship can be deeply incomprehensible and troubling.

As the duo go on a journey that may take them towards the edge of their physical and emotional endurance, the stakes are high – to save lots of a global from war, and save their own lives.

Ursula Le Guin’s award-winning masterpiece was among the initial feminist SF books, and this compelling dramatisation is both a subtle exploration of gender and a thrilling tale of like, betrayal and success in a scenery of endless snow and snow. It stars Lesley Sharp (Scott & Bailey), Toby Jones (Dad’s Military) and Louise Brealey (Sherlock).. Duration: 2 hours approx.