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Resistance

BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama

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Resistance

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Gina McKee, full cast, Chetna Pandya, Emily Pithon, Nitin Kundra
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About this listen

Gina McKee stars in this chilling apocalyptic radio drama by award-winning writer Val McDermid.

It's the summer solstice weekend, and 150,000 people have descended on a farm in the northeast of England for an open-air music festival. Reporting on the event is journalist Zoe Meadows, who files her copy from a food van run by her friends Sam and Lisa.

When some of Sam's customers get sick, it looks like food poisoning, and it's exacerbated by the mud, rain and inadequate sanitary facilities. It's assumed to be a 24-hour thing until people get home and discover strange skin lesions, which ulcerate and turn septic. More people start getting ill - and dying.

What looked like a minor bug is clearly much more serious: a mystery illness that's spreading fast and seems resistant to all antibiotics. Zoe teams up with Sam to track the outbreak to its source; meanwhile, can a cure be found before the disease becomes a pandemic?

From a number one best-selling author, this original drama envisages a nightmare scenario that seems only too credible in our modern age.

Duration: 2 hours 30 mins approx.

©2017 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2017 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd Drama & Plays European Suspense Thriller & Suspense World Literature

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I heard this a couple of years ago as a radio play the Was well before Covid
Listening again the similarities are very interesting
It was really good wish it had been longer

Loved it

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This story is very apt for the time we live in, and quite frightening too.
At the start of the covid outbreak I watched the movie Contagion for the second time, now I have listened to Resistance for the second time.
It really makes you think, and a little bit frightened.

Very apt.

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loved it , recommend it to anyone who likes murder mysteries, couldn't stop listening

excellent

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‘Resistance’ is a great solid story, told well. Though I have just listened (yesterday) to John Dryden’s ‘Pandemic’ which is also by the BBC (both 2hrs 11mins) and has a similar vein of ‘World catastrophe/ Armageddon’. Both are great listens, but I would suggest to opt for ‘Pandemic’ as it’s a hidden gem.

A great thought provoking story

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Thoroughly engrossed throughout. Extremely thought provoking and has generated much discussion. More dramatisations of this calibrate please.

Excellent!

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Absolutely brilliant.
I’ll be looking for more of this form
the Beeb etc
Well written, well spoken and oh so realistic

Take a pill....

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loved it...a real dilema of antibiotic use and the ignorance of humankind...a glimpse of the future?

scarily real

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Audio play with excellent cast list. Plot was typical pig flu genre but very good nevertheless. Set in first person and we'll delivered.

Damn good production

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I found this radio play to be both realistic and accurate. Val McDermid has obviously done her research well.

I believe the message it sends is something that everyone needs to take into account. This will remain the most realistic post apocalyptic speculative fiction I have come across in a long time.

probably the most important thing you need to listen to

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I enjoyed the story but it was left a little unresolved which was a little frustrating.

A good story but ends abruptly

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