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Workshop: The Ritual of the Stifling Air

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

by Paul Green

Acolyte: In the beginning the sum total of all black names are mouthed through the dead air across the abyss.

The function of the ritual is necromantic. Taking as a starting point the hypothesis that certain quasi-mystical societies were connected with the Nazi regime, the author has constructed an imaginary ceremony that such a society might perform today in an attempt to contact the spirit of their dead leader - Hitler. It is an attempt to investigate the power of the ritual aspect of such a ceremony as a ceremony and at the same time as a piece for radio.

Music composed and played by VINCENT CRANE
Technical assistance ALAN WARD JOHN COLVIN and RICHARD EDIS
Directed by MICHAEL ROLFE
BBC Birmingham
Preview: page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Green
Played By:
Vincent Crane
Unknown:
Alan Ward
Unknown:
John Colvin
Unknown:
Richard Edis
Directed By:
Michael Rolfe
Magus:
Clive Swift
Clairvoyante:
Illona Linthwaite
Acolyte:
Michael Deacon
Source: Radio Times

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