Narrated By: Robert Sheehan, Michelle Fairley, Zubin Varla
Duration: 2 hours and 46 minutes
What to expect
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much worse for the Joads... John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about economic migration and the endurance of the human spirit is dramatized by Donna Franceschild and directed by Kirsty Williams.Genre
Modern & contemporary fiction, Family life fiction, Radio plays, scripts & performances
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