Read by: Robert Sheehan, Michelle Fairley, Zubin Varla
Language: English
Length: 2 hours and 46 minutes
Publisher: BBC Audio
Release date: 2013-03-18
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much worse for the Joads....
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about economic migration and the endurance of the human spirit is dramatized by Donna Franceschild and directed by Kirsty Williams.