Austerlitz
WG Sebald's novel about remembering the Holocaust, dramatised by Michael Butt. A stranger in the Antwerp station confides an unsettling story of vanished identity.
W G Sebald's masterpiece novel about remembering the Holocaust, in a new dramatisation for radio by Michael Butt. The narrator meets a quiet stranger in the Antwerp station cafe and he begins to confide an unsettling story of vanished identity - which travels through 1930s Czechosolovakia, the Kindertransport of Jewish children to Britain and adoption in Wales.
Sebald came to prominince in the 1990s as an acclaimed German writer, living in Britain, whose novels tackled many aspects of Germany's confrontation wth its traumatic wartime past. He died in 2001 at the height of his critical appreciation.
A Fiction Factory Production.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Austerlitz | James Fleet |
Narrator | Stephen Greif |
Elias | David Sibley |
Margaret | Poppy Miller |
Evan | Michael Elwyn |
Agata | Morven Christie |
Maximilian | Timothy Watson |
Marie | Amanda Drew |
Vera | Deborah Findlay |
Young Vera | Emma Powell |
Young Austerlitz | Dyfan Dwyfor |
Actor | Kim Guest |
Child Austerlitz | Kalum Guest |
Director | John Taylor |
Adaptor | Michael Butt |
Writer | Winfried Georg Sebald |
Broadcasts
- Sun 16 Dec 2012 20:3091热爆 Radio 3
- Sun 24 Nov 2013 22:0091热爆 Radio 3