Ucronias

Fecha de emisión en BBC Radio 3 – Del 14 al 18 de julio de 2025

“Uchronia” – noun – neologism. An alternative history or genre of speculative fiction that reimagines historical events or characters in a new light.

Five startling, counterfactual stories featuring Chopin, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Beethoven and Satie. These stories were originally created for classical music magazine Scherzo from the imagination of Spanish writer and radio presenter Martín Llade, with hints of Borges and Marcel Schwob.

Uchronias straddles the gap between fact and fiction, creating hypothetical, “what if” scenarios around 19th and 20th century composers and their lives.

Cuentos de Martín Llade
Lectura de Blake Ritson

Con agradecimientos a Juan Lucas y a David Johnston.

Episode 1 – The sensible thing was to kill him
Episode 2 – The Sibelius Report
Episode 3 – Stravinsky Goes Pop
Episode 4 – Must it be so?
Episode 5 – Satie’s Aleph

Edición original de los cuentos con el título «El horizonte quimérico» en Scherzo Editorial S.L.

Producción ejecutiva, Sara Davies
Mezcla de sonido, Adam Woodhams
Traducción, producción y locución, Nicolas Jackson

Una producción de Afónica para BBC Radio 3