Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
(Produced and read by Vincent Bagnall. From "The Great Divorce') The narrator finds himself on a bus along with a small number of other people, and the bus proceeds to fly over the grey town. The Narrator then talks with some of the other people on the bus, some of whom remember dying in various ways.
The bus lands on a huge cliff, and the Narrator and the other passengers get out. They find that they’ve landed by a beautiful river, surrounded by grass and trees. However, the Narrator quickly discovers that everything in this place is motionless—even the blades of grass are rigid and hard. This makes walking around very painful. The Narrator also realizes that he no longer has a solid body—he and his peers are ghosts. The Narrator slowly realizes that he’s in the afterlife. (11 min.)
(Produced and read by Vincent Bagnall. From "The Great Divorce') The narrator finds himself on a bus along with a small number of other people, and the bus proceeds to fly over the grey town. The Narrator then talks with some of the other people on the bus, some of whom remember dying in various ways.
The bus lands on a huge cliff, and the Narrator and the other passengers get out. They find that they’ve landed by a beautiful river, surrounded by grass and trees. However, the Narrator quickly discovers that everything in this place is motionless—even the blades of grass are rigid and hard. This makes walking around very painful. The Narrator also realizes that he no longer has a solid body—he and his peers are ghosts. The Narrator slowly realizes that he’s in the afterlife. (11 min.)
