A Hospital Case by DINO BUZZATI translated and adapted by HENRY REED with Stephen Murray and Nigel Davenport
Giovanni Corte , a very lion of a man, gets caught up in the machinery of medicine, hospitals, ageing-death: it it a satire on a mid-20th-century health service, but also, on a deeper level, a modern morality play on the death of a rich man. With JOHN GRAHAM
STANLEY LEBOR, PHILIP MORANT
Special effects by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN
This revival of the 1961 Third Programme production commemorates the death earlier this year of one of Italy's leading playwrights.
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