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Sunday Play: Speak Low

on BBC Radio 3

After his successful collaboration with Bertolt
Brecht in pre-Nazi Germany, Kurt Weill enjoyed a second career as a writer of musicals in wartime New York. He loved America. "I was
American before I arrived there," he said. But in this new play by Bruce Stewart he has to re-define his relationship with Brecht - now an exile in Hollywood - and remarry his first wife, the singer Lotte Lenya.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Kurt Weill
Play By:
Bruce Stewart
Singer:
Lotte Lenya.
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Weill:
Andrew Sachs
Brecht:
Bill Wallis
Lotte Lenya:
Melinda Walker
Ogden Nash/Otto Klemperer;Mr Menyman:
Christian Rodska
Carmelita /Helene Weigel:
Joanna Myers
Father/Pianist:
Bruce Stewart

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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