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Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game: 1. Seeds of Unrest

Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

1. Seeds of Unrest

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Elite intellectual Joseph Knecht rebels against the utopian society he once idolised.

Elite intellectual Joseph Knecht feels compelled to rebel against the utopian society he once idolised. Stars Derek Jacobi.

Joseph Knecht is a rising star in the Castalian Order, a band of elite intellectuals who live a closeted life of study and Glass Bead Game playing. 

But Joseph's elevation to one of the highest and most respected ranks of The Order coincides with a crisis of conscience.

His ever-deepening doubts about this idealistic and sanitised society threaten to topple its very foundations...

Hermann Hesse's classic novel set in a futuristic, utopian society - first published in 1943.

Starring Derek Jacobi and Tom Ferguson.  

Dramatised in two parts  by Lavinia Greenlaw

Biographer …. Derek Jacobi
Joseph Knecht …. Tom Ferguson
Young Joseph …. Aidan Parsons
Music Master …. Malcolm Raeburn
Teacher/Van Der Trave …. Terence Mann
Plinio …. David Seddon
Fritz …. Toby Hadoke
Father Jacobus …. David Fleeshman
Bertram …. Jonathan Keeble

String Player:  Kevin Flynn

Producer: Charlotte Riches

Director: Susan Roberts

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2010.

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Dramatisation of Hermann Hesse's classic 1943 novel set in a futuristic, utopian society

Dramatisation by Lavinia Greenlaw of Hermann Hesse's classic 1943 novel set in a futuristic, utopian society

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