One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Episode 3

Another chance to hear Christian Slater read Ken Kesey's powerful, anti-authoritarian novel. Based on the author's own experiences at a war veterans' mental hospital in California, it was described as "a glittering parable of good and evil" on its publication in 1962. It tells the story of Randle Patrick McMurphy, a rebellious inmate in a mental hospital who leads a rebellion against the repressive staff. In the third episode, McMurphy is taking bets on the World Series and he wants to watch the games but Nurse Ratched refuses to allow it. McMurphy decides that he could bust out of the place using the big control panel, which is made from steel and cement, but he is thwarted by the weight of it. This series first broadcast on Radio 2 in 2004, when Christian Slater was playing McMurphy in London's West End.