Pandemic is an original Realm action and adventure political thriller serialized fiction and audio drama written and directed by John Dryden. It has 1 season and 3 episodes.
Synopsis[]
A political thriller, in three parts by John Dryden, set around a devastating worldwide viral outbreak.
Official synopsis
Premise[]
This serial is set around a devastating worldwide viral outbreak.
Episodes[]
| # | Title | Reading length | Listening length |
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| 1 | The Present | 27 minutes | 43 minutes |
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Dr Jan Roldanus, a microbiologist and WHO advisor on infectious diseases, arrives in Bangkok to give a keynote lecture at a medical conference. Whilst there, he is invited to observe the local authority’s handling of an outbreak of bird flu. But when a new virulent strain, “Red Eye”, emerges, he finds himself trapped in Thailand. As the virus spreads at a terrifying pace, his investigations lead him to one inescapable and terrible conclusion... | |||
| 2 | The Future | 32 minutes | 43 minutes |
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Five years after a devastating global pandemic that killed her daughter, Diane Harper, a British civil servant, is sent to the Oxfordshire countryside to investigate the suicide of a government scientist. When she discovers that the dead scientist had been briefing a journalist who has subsequently gone missing, she embarks on a desperate search for the truth about the origins of the outbreak. | |||
| 3 | The Past | 30 minutes | 43 minutes |
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At a climate change conference in Copenhagen, a group of radical eco-warriors, led by Josh. attempt to discredit a right-wing Danish scientist by luring him into a sex scandal. When it all goes wrong, Richard Frankel, one of the conspirators, returns to his life in Leeds as a teacher. But when he discovers his co-conspirator and ex-girlfriend, has given birth to a child, he goes in search of her into a dangerous world of environmental espionage and a terrifying conspiracy. | |||