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In Search of Faust

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Music: Classic Pop & Rock

14/10/2010

BBC Radio 4 - In Search of Faust

Poet and singer Twm Morys asks why artists have been so fascinated by the story of Faust.

Poet and singer Twm Morys asks why artists have been so fascinated by the story of Faust, who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for ultimate knowledge.

The story of Faust, who sold his immortal soul to the devil in exchange for ultimate knowledge, has been re-imagined in a thousand different ways by writers, painters, film-makers and composers. Poet and singer Twm Morys investigates why we have been fascinated by this unlikely hero for the last five centuries.

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