One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Episode 7

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 seventh episode, the Chief and McMurphy are taken away for electric shock therapy. The Chief receives one treatment, McMurphy receives three. This series first broadcast on Radio 2 in 2004, when Christian Slater was playing McMurphy in London's West End.