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R.U.R. written by Karel Capek performed by Simon Ward, Tessa Peake-Jones and BBC Radio 4 Drama Team on Audio CD (Abridged)

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ISBN: 9781408400456
Genre - Main: Fiction
Genre - Specific: Drama
Duration: 90 mins
Length: Excerpts
Author: Karel Capek
Performer 1: Simon Ward
Performer 2: Tessa Peake-Jones
Performer 3: BBC Radio 4 Drama Team

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Simon Ward and Tessa Peake-Jones star in this suspenseful BBC Radio dramatisation of Karel Capek's play. Fired by a passionate enthusiasm to improve on Nature, old Rossum spends a decade trying to create humans. The experiments fail, until Rossum's engineer nephew takes over and manages to invent artificial beings.

Intelligent machines, with no emotions and no souls, these 'robots' make perfect workers. When Harry Domain, general manager of Rossum's Universal Robots, has a visit from Helena Glory, he is only too pleased to agree to her request for a tour of the factory.

But Helena is horrified and moved to pity by what she sees, and persuades Dr Gall to instil consciousness into certain robots - with catastrophic results...

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If only they'd said no ... What if they hadn’t gone? That’s the question Clementine can’t stop asking herself. It was just a backyard barbeque. They didn’t know their hosts that well. They were friends of friends. They could so easily have said no. But she and her husband Sam said yes, and now they can never change...