Episode 2
Simon Scardifield’s dramatisation of Alfred Döblin's modernist masterpiece set 1920s Berlin. Betrayed by a business partner ex-con, Franz is drawn back into the criminal underworld
A dramatization by Simon Scardifield from Michael Hofmann's landmark translation of Alfred Döblin's modernist masterpiece set on the streets of Berlin - a novel that exploded into 1929 and changed urban writing forever.
Betrayed by a business partner ex-con, Franz Biberkopf, gives into the siren call of the criminal underworld once more.
Narrator ..... Claes Bang
Franz ..... Lee Ross
Mack ..... Samuel James
Reinhold ….. David Hounslow
Pums ..... Neil McCaul
Herbert ….. Mark Edel Hunt
Eva ….. Clare Corbett
Franzi ..... Ria Marshall
Lina ..... Jasmine Hyde
Slaughterman ..... Justice Ritchie
Cilly ..... Grace Cooper Milton
Keyboard ..... Chris Jack
Alice ..... Christine Kavanagh
Produced by Emma Harding and Marc Beeby
Directed by David Hunter and Gemma Jenkins
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- Sat 30 Nov 2024 15:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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