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The Monday Play: Homo Faber

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Max Frisch, dramatised by Jane Beeson
with Michael Pennington as Faber, Sylvestra le Touzel as Sabeth, Elizabeth Bell as Hanna.
It is the 1950s and Faber is part of the new technological revolution. He distrusts emotions and believes only in the calculable, but when his plane crashlands in the Mexican desert he experiences a series of coincidences.
He meets a lost friend, a former lover and a daughter he has never known...
BBC Bristol
Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Author:
Max Frisch
Dramatised by:
Jane Beeson
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Faber:
Michael Pennington
Sabeth:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Hanna:
Elizabeth Bell
Hencke:
Christian Rodska
Lewin:
Ed Bishop
Joachim:
Eric Allan
Hostess:
Lesa Lockford
Marcel:
David Learner
Captain:
John Church
Ivy:
Bonnie Hurren
Technician:
Graham Blockey
Doctor:
Richard Durden
Hardy:
William Hope
Williams:
William Eedle
Source: Radio Times

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