Fight Club: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

Chuck Palahniuk

Jul 2018 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Elaine Cassidy, Full Cast, Patrick Kennedy, and Sam Hazeldine

About this audiobook

First there was the insomnia.
Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep.
Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel cancer and ruined everything.
Then he met Tyler Durden.
Then came Fight Club.

Fight Club is the psychological story of a man's descent into an underground world of violence. Mild mannered product-recall-specialist by day, tortured insomniac by night, our narrator meets Tyler Durden - part-time projectionist, banquet waiter, soap-maker and anarchic genius. Together they create Fight Club. In Fight Club our narrator, and men like him, can escape the monotony of their daily work-dominated, consumer-driven, image-obsessed lives. In Fight Club you can escape who the world thinks you ought to be.

Soon there are Fight Clubs in basement bars in towns and cities across the country; men with cuts, bruises, stitches, missing teeth wherever you look, and Tyler Durden has become an urban legend. But when Tyler invents Project Mayhem and things begin to escalate, there's only one thing to do: shut down Fight Club.

But have they created a monster they can't control?

Chuck Palahniuk's visceral and unflinching cult novel stars Patrick Kennedy, Sam Hazeldine and Elaine Cassidy.

Cast:
The Narrator...Patrick Kennedy
Tyler Durden...Sam Hazeldine
Marla Singer... Elaine Cassidy
Big Bob...Martin Sherman
Doctor/Boss...Nigel Whitmey
Recruit One...Danny Mahoney
Mechanic...John Schwab
Ted...Sam Dale
Glenda...Jane Slavin
Chloe...Ayesha Antoine

Dramatised by Tracey Malone and Ed Whitmore
Produced by Heather Larmour

Ratings and reviews

The story is life changing; my favorite next to Rant. The audible narrator (imo) doesn't do the energy much justice. This performance was much better. Message to the audible and audiobook companies: Try making the voices match the characters and their emotions? It would have me buying many more titles to listen to. It's hard to be engulfed by the story if my mind is constantly saying "I didnt think that character would sound so meek and mild." Haha

I'm saying, this is so not about hypertension and energy refraction, this is so not about about light fixtures, just eat with a fork. so many people eat just not with a fork. I mean Only With A Fork. Don't get to big for your boots call it a Spork either.

1 hour long. Missed key points in the book/movie.

About the author

Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of fifteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and Make Something Up. The award-winning novel Fight Club was made into a cult film starring Brad Pitt, Ed Norton and Helena Bonham-Carter. His latest novel, Adjustment Day, was published in 2018. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.