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Sunday Play: The Man Outside

BBC Radio 3
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By Wolfgang Borchert, in a new translation by Rob Walker.

Corporal Beckmann - just returned from the Eastern Front to find his wife in bed with another man - is about to jump into the frozen River Elbe.

Contributors

Author:
Wolfgang Borchert
Translation by:
Rob Walker
Music:
David Chilton
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Beckmann:
Jonathan Moore
The Other:
Anthony Ofoegbu
Road sweeper/Mad general:
Graham Crowden
River Elbe:
Fenella Fielding
God:
Hugh Dickson
Colonel:
Roger Hammond
Theatre director:
Stephen Thorne
Girl:
Tracey Ann Oberman
Frau Kramer:
Carolyn Jones
One-legged man:
Ioan Meredith
[Actor]:
David Brooks
[Actress]:
Janet Maw
[Actress]:
Alison Pettitt
[Actor]:
Chris Scott
Source: Radio Times

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