Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, read by William Hurt
Narrator: Christopher Hurt Run Time: 5hr 8min 56sec The system was simple, books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires instead of putting them out. His life changes when he secretly keeps a book and becomes a fugitive tracked by a robotic killer dog.
A Pleasure to Burn Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Audiobook) Pleasure to Burn -- a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master's landmark novel Fahrenheit 451 -- is an indispensable companion to the most powerful work of America's preeminent storyteller, a wondrous confirmation of the inimitable Bradbury's brilliance, magic, and fire.
Fahrenheit 451 (BBC Radio - Full Cast Dramatization)
From BBC Radio 4 Extra. Written by Ray Bradbury. Full-cast dramatisation, Dramatised by Gregory Evans. Dark futuristic tale starring Michael Pennington. Sun 12 Feb 2012 Firefighters in the future no longer stop fires, but start them - by burning books. In a future where books are banned to control individual thought, a man employed to burn them begins to question the practice.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian soft science fiction novel that was first published in 1953. It is set in a society where censorship is prevalent, and moronic citizens learn only from television. Most books are banned and critical thought is suppressed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a "fireman" (which, in this case, means "book burner"). 451 degrees Fahrenheit is stated as "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns …". It was originally published as a shorter novella, The Fireman, in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. A film adaptation, by François Truffaut, was released in 1966, and another is anticipated.
