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Paul Scofield reading 'LENZ'

on Third Programme

by Georg Biichner
Translated by Goronwy Rees
Music composed by Humphrey Searle played bv a section of the Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer
Production by H. B. Fortuin
In this analytical documentary story-begun about 1836 but unfinished because of other pressing literarv tasks-Büchner gives a moving picture of how the poet and playwright Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792) while staying in the Vosges with the kind Pastor Oberlin was engulfed by madness.

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Unknown:
Georg Biichner
Translated By:
Goronwy Rees
Composed By:
Humphrey Searle
Production By:
H. B. Fortuin
Unknown:
Reinhold Lenz

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