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The Ironic Mystic

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

by David Heald
November 1933: the literary editor of Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung interviews the brilliant but neglected novelist Robert Musil, author of "The Man without Qualities", in a café in Vienna.

Contributors

Writer:
David Heald
Director:
Anton Gill
Robert Musil:
Patrick Magee
Reader:
Edward de Souza
Journalist:
John Abineri
First intellectual/Thomas Mann:
Roger Hammond
Second intellectual/Walter Benjamin:
Gordon Dulieu
Third Intellectual/Hermann Broch:
Adrian Egan
Fourth intellectual/Oswald Spengler:
Mike McStay
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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