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Weimar Season: The Fossil

on BBC Radio 3

by Carl Sternheim, translated by J.M. Ritchie
with Cheryl Campbell as Ursula, Gerard Murphy as Ago von Bohna and Peter Woodthorpe
as General Traugott von Beeskow

In the year after the First World War, the Prussian aristocracy is prepared to defend its way of life by murder and seduction. And Baron Ago von Bohna has returned from Moscow infected by new ideas.

Contributors

Author:
Carl Sternheim
Translated by:
J.M. Ritchie
Director:
Ned Chaillet
Ursula:
Cheryl Campbell
Ago von Bohna:
Gerard Murphy
General Traugott von Beeskow:
Peter Woodthorpe
Otto:
Graham Blockey
Sofie:
Melinda Walker
Ulrike:
Natasha Pyne
General's wife:
Gwen Cherrell
Achim:
David Learner
Fraulein von Rauch:
Elaine Claxton
Fohrkolb:
Eric Stovell

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