Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 280,439 playable programmes from the BBC

Classic Serial

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Episode 1

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico Muhly.

Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn star in this story of an old Hanseatic merchant family fighting to keep their commercial supremacy in the changing world of 1840s Europe.

Four generations of Buddenbrooks try to sustain their inheritance - a once highly successful trading company in the port of Lubeck on the Baltic Sea - in a world where the old ways no longer work.

Harmonium and Flute by Rick Juckes.
Technical Presentation by David Fleming Williams.

Produced by Chris Wallis
A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. Show less

Contributors

Narrator Count Molln:
Pip Carter
Johann Buddenbrook:
Kenneth Cranham
Antoinette Buddenbrook:
Ann Beach
Jean Buddenbrook:
Michael Maloney
Elizabet Buddenbrook:
Barbara Flynn
Toni Buddenbrook:
Clare Corbett
Young Toni:
Rosa Calcraft
Thomas Buddenbrook:
Angus Imrie
Young Thomas:
Thiago Los
Christian Buddenbrook:
Scott Smith
Young Christian:
Gene Goodman
Ida Jungmann:
Alison Pettit
Herr Hoffstede:
Shaun Prendergast
Herr Grunlich:
Ben Crowe
Pilot Schwarzkopf:
Peter Marinker
Morten Schwarzkopf:
Carl Prekopp
Armgard Von Schillink:
Karolina Cybulski
Gerda Arnoldson:
Serena Lamble
Julchen Hagenstrom:
Priyanka Patel
Herman Hagenstrom:
Spike White
Producer:
Chris Wallis

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More