Steve Pemberton narrates the story of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s reserved English butler, in this heartbreaking classic.
The Remains of the Day is Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of the inter-war years in a great English house, told from the perspective of its stoic head butler, Stevens.
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and deeper into his past. Has tradition and reserve lead to aching loss?
Winner of the 1989 Booker prize and one of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is a tale of convention, love and regret that is both deeply affecting and richly atmospheric.
Bafta-winning actor Steve Pemberton narrates this contemporary classic as part of BBC Four’s performance strand, The Read - the best of literature brought to life on screen.
"I jumped at the chance of bringing Ishiguro’s masterpiece to life for The Read. The characters and their relationships are so beautifully drawn and understated, with the novel’s power often lying in what is left unsaid, what emotions repressed. It’s a unique challenge for an actor to have to conjure up a whole cast of characters whilst addressing the audience directly in long takes, but one which I relished, and I was sorry to say goodbye to Mr Stevens, Miss Kenton and Lord Darlington.” - Steve Pemberton
A Rural Media production for BBC Four and BBC iPlayer. The Director is Rachel Lambert, the Producer is Julie Colman and the Executive Producer is Grant Black. The commissioner for BBC Arts is Stephen James-Yeoman.
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