BBC R4 - The Left Hand Of Darkness

BBC R4 - Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand Of Darkness'

Adapted by Judith Adams

Directed by Allegra McIlroy

Broadcast April 2015

Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1



[b[BBC Blurb[/b]

Genly Ai has arrived from Earth onto the planet Gethen,

a world in which humans are ambigendered - everyone

can be a mother and everyone can be a father.



In coming to terms with their  otherness - and also their

sameness - Genly must let go of everything he understood

about his own identity.



Cast

Estraven - Lesley Sharp

Genly Ai - Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Shusgis = Stephen Critchlow

Esvans and Asra - Sam Dale

Ashe - Ruth Gemmell

Obsle - David Acton

Gaum - Louise Brealey

Sorve - Ayesha Antoine

Doctor - Rhiannon Neads

Skipper - David Hounslow

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