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Sunday Play: The Last Days of Mankind

on BBC Radio 3

By Karl Kraus.

The First World War continues to wreak its destruction on the subjects of the Hapsburg Empire both physically and mentally. Their reaction to living in an increasingly surreal world is to retreat into unreality.

Contributors

Author:
Karl Kraus
Translated by:
Robert David MacDonald
Adapted by/Director:
Giles Havergal
Producer:
Dave Bachelor
Reverend:
John Bett
Common Soldier:
Chris Delaney
Newsreader:
Anna Ford
Journalist:
Patrick Hannaway
Kraus:
Giles Havergal
Patriot:
Crawford Logan
Minister:
Robert David MacDonald
General:
Stephen MacDonald
General:
Sandy Neilson
Actress:
Alison Peebles
Officer:
Laurance Rudic
God:
Paul Scofield
Lady Journalist:
Gerda Stevenson
Subscriber:
Finlay Welsh
Officer:
Sandy Welsh
Officer:
Matthew Whittle

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