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'THE GIRLS FROM VITERBO '

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Written for radio by Giinter Eich
Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger
Gabriele, a Jewish girl of seventeen, is in hiding from the Nazis with her grandfather in a Berlin flat. Inspired by an old newspaper cutting, the two of them reconstruct the story of a party of Italian schoolgirls lost in the Roman catacombs. They feel that their own real situation is illuminated by the imagined one in the catacombs, which for the listener symbolise the Nazi gas chambers. with Pauline Yates. Frank Pettingell
Coral Fairweather , Frank Duncan
Joyce Carpenter , Isla Cameron
Nona Blair. Anne Berestord
Ysanne Churchman Nicolette Bernard
Derek Birch. Glyn Dearman
Produced by Christopher Holme

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Radio By:
Giinter Eich
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Michael Hamburger
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Pauline Yates.
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Frank Pettingell
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Coral Fairweather
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Frank Duncan
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Joyce Carpenter
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Isla Cameron
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Nona Blair.
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Anne Berestord
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Ysanne Churchman
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Nicolette Bernard
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Derek Birch.
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Glyn Dearman
Produced By:
Christopher Holme

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