James Davis Nicoll: Listening to the BBC adaptation of On the Beach. Characters are in the same pickle as they were in the book and the movie. Why do they never learn?

Listening to the BBC adaptation of On the Beach. Characters are in the same pickle as they were in the book and the movie. Why do they never learn?

I strongly suspect that there are well-stocked shelters being built and occupied by OtB's government and various oligarchs, even as the government mails out suicide kits for the masses.

Well, if you're on a beach, you're close to the briney deep, so yeah, you might end up pickled.

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