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Resistance

BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama

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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 Entertainment & Performing Arts Fantasy Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense
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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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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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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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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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I heard this in radio 4 a few years ago, and it took me a while to track it down again. really interesting to hear it again during a global pandemic. So much of it seemed so far fetched when I first heard it, but now it seems so familiar 😔

Chillingly familiar

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