Ian Rankin on Lord of the Flies
Ian Rankin first read William Golding's novel at school. Scenes from it have stayed with him ever since. Now he imagines what might happen to Ralph and Jack after the novel's end.
Five leading writers pick a novel they love and then write an original piece of fiction imagining what happened to the characters after the story ends.
In the first essay of the series, the crime writer Ian Rankin picks William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Like many students, Ian first encountered the novel at school but certain scenes and moments have stayed with him for the past 40 years. In this essay, Ian explores his relationship with the work as a teenager of the 1970s and imagines what might have happened to two of the shipwrecked boys, Ralph and Jack, once they reach adulthood.
Producer: Camellia Sinclair
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- Mon 23 Dec 2019 22:00主播大秀 Radio 3
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