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Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Episode 2

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, Barbara Flynn. Joseph Millson and Clare Corbett 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 seem to work. It's 1848, and the revolutionary tide running through Europe has finally reached Lubeck. Will the old merchant families hold on to power? Of the Buddenbrook children, only Tom remains to learn the business. Toni is in Hamburg married to Herr Grunlich, and Christian has gone to England but would rather be in Valparaiso.

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

Directed by Chris Wallis
An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. Show less

Contributors

Narrator:
Pip Carter
Jean Buddenbrook:
Michael Maloney
Elizabet Buddenbrook:
Barbara Flynn
Thomas Buddenbrook:
Joseph Millson
Toni Buddenbrook:
Clare Corbett
Christian Buddenbrook:
Carl Prekopp
Clara Buddenbrook:
Rosa Calcraft
Clara Buddenbrook:
Millie Binks
Gerda Buddenbrook:
Colleen Prendergast
Gotthold Buddenbrook:
Shaun Prendergast
Herr Grunlich:
Ben Crowe
Herr Kesselmeyer:
Stephen Critchlow
Pilot Schwarzkopf:
Peter Marinker
Herr Gosch:
Gerard McDermott
Ida Jungmann:
Alison Pettit
Producer:
Chris Wallis

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