Five readings from contemporary European fiction.
The Film Explainer By Gert Hofmann.
An autobiographical novel set in provincial Germany in the 1930s, during the rise of Nazism. An old man narrates silent movies for cinema audiences but loses his job with the advent of the "talkies".
Read by Jamie Glover.
Translated by Michael Hofmann Producer Julia Butt
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