Voices in Time
Hugh MacLennan
In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives: his older cousin Timothy Wellfleet, a Montreal TV journalist at the time of the 1970 War Measures Act, and his stepfather, Conrad Dehmel, a German scholar struggling to keep his Jewish fiancé and himself safe from Hitler's Gestapo. Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story.
Author - Hugh MacLennan.
Narrator - Daniel Michael Karpenchuk.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Location:
United States
Description:
In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives: his older cousin Timothy Wellfleet, a Montreal TV journalist at the time of the 1970 War Measures Act, and his stepfather, Conrad Dehmel, a German scholar struggling to keep his Jewish fiancé and himself safe from Hitler's Gestapo. Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story. Author - Hugh MacLennan. Narrator - Daniel Michael Karpenchuk. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
Duration:00:00:28
Chapter 2
Duration:01:17:54
Chapter 3
Duration:01:28:06
Chapter 4
Duration:01:29:21
Chapter 5
Duration:01:24:30
Chapter 6
Duration:00:30:45
Chapter 7
Duration:01:12:20
Chapter 8
Duration:01:18:51
Chapter 9
Duration:01:22:21
Chapter 10
Duration:00:33:37
Chapter 11
Duration:00:20:58
Chapter 12
Duration:00:25:40
Chapter 13
Duration:01:24:24
Chapter 14
Duration:00:33:47
Chapter 15
Duration:00:06:48
Chapter 16
Duration:00:00:48