Listen "Adaptation"
Episode Synopsis
Josie Long hears stories of adaptation.
A former ghost writer describes the art of adapting someone else's life for the page, and a woman who left Damascus considers how her city has changed in the last few years.Plus two stories of adapting to extraordinary circumstances - members of the Arctic 30 adjust to their new life inside a Russian prison, and a researcher perched on top of a Hawaiian volcano tests her psychological capacity to live on another planet.Taking part:Mark McCrum
Martha Lenio
Sarah Dadouch
Frank Hewetson
Dima LitinovProducers Olivia Humphreys, Tim Hinman, Fiona ClampinSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2015.
A former ghost writer describes the art of adapting someone else's life for the page, and a woman who left Damascus considers how her city has changed in the last few years.Plus two stories of adapting to extraordinary circumstances - members of the Arctic 30 adjust to their new life inside a Russian prison, and a researcher perched on top of a Hawaiian volcano tests her psychological capacity to live on another planet.Taking part:Mark McCrum
Martha Lenio
Sarah Dadouch
Frank Hewetson
Dima LitinovProducers Olivia Humphreys, Tim Hinman, Fiona ClampinSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2015.
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