description: A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"This dramatisation for BBC Radio Four directed by Alison Hindell featuring Jason Hughes, Struan Rodger, John McArdle and Jack Davenport.
language: English
title: A Clockwork Orange
titlecomplete: A Clockwork Orange
characters: Pete, Alex Jacobi, Dr Brodsky, Georgie, Dim
genres: Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Crime, Literature, Horror, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 694669
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
publisher: Bbc Book Pub