30 May 2005
Life of Pi
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by Yann Martel
abridged by Heather Steen
After a tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi, a 16-year-old Indian boy.
Transcript
This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional difficulty in identifying speakers.
Yann Martel, the child of diplomats, was born in Spain in 1963. He grew up in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, Alaska and Canada, and as an adult has spent time in Iran, Turkey and India. After studying philosophy at Trent University, Canada, he worked at various odd jobs until he began making a living as a writer at the age of 27. He is the author of Self, a novel, and the story collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios. He lives in Montreal.
Raj Ryan graduated from the National Institute for Dramatic Art in 1989. He has performed in theatre productions for the Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Pork Chop Productions and others. He has featured in television, film and radio productions. For Radio National he has previously read Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi, Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll and The Architect by John Scott.
Life of Pi was the winner of the Booker Prize in 2002, and is published by Canongate.
Sound engineers:
Angus Kingston and Louis Mitchell
Produced and directed by:
Libby Douglas.
Reader:
Raj Ryan
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