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URY's national award winning team presents our most ambitious drama to date, available to hear worldwide at www.ury.org.uk, with two feature length Episodes over two consecutive weeks!
‘England, May 1645: The civil war that has torn England apart between King Charles I and Parliament is nearing its bloody conclusion — and in the English countryside, a stranger seeks his old love and finds there is a son whom he has never seen...’
You would be excused, perhaps, for thinking that this is the introduction to a thrilling historical drama. And you'd be dead right. Yet this is not the history you know, for the world has turned on to a new and deadly path.
With breath-taking imagination, Ben Jeapes has wrenched the familiar flow of English history out of its course and made it into something else, something entirely other. There is a third force, an entirely alien force — the Holekhor — who have martial powers of their own, their own religious leaders who command mysterious and strange forces, and who bring with them technology that should not have been seen in England for another three hundred years...
Prepare to be astounded. History will never be the same again.’
Described by the Sunday Times in 2004 as "Without doubt the best science fiction book of the year”, the national award winning drama team at University Radio York has the privilege of the first ever dramatization of this incredible novel.
With an incredible cast of around 30 talented student actors and a specially composed score recorded by an ensemble fine student musicians this two part feature length drama brings you, through the power of radio, scenes to rival Hollywood epics as well as an intimate portrait of historical figures and beautifully crafted characters in a world turned on its head.
NOTE: This production is only going to be broadcast once and will not be available on our on demand service.
We are York Uni's only electronic music and DJ society, and will be providing a variety of underground genres running from Jazz and Afrobeat to UK Garage and Techno. We're aiming to educate our listeners in the most obscure and forward thinking music we could get our hands on, which means we will be getting some of our favourite selectors from York and nearby cities to provide guest mixes, as we plough through the hundreds of new releases that come out weekly.
Just Keep Talking is THE new radio chat show, bringing you gossip from around campus and answering your burning questions, such as: "why do the geese hate us so much?" or "what makes a York BNOC unique?" Featuring amusing snippets including "Embarassing Stories from The Porters" and "Campus's Smartest - Named and Shamed", this show is designed to bring you the best of student life. We will have regular guests appearances - after all, didn't you always wonder why lecturers bother to teach in fresher's week? Or what the college chairs were thinking when they allowed those beeping kitchen doors to be installed? Tune in to experience York as you've never seen it before!