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02/09/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, Stationmaster Fallmerayer

Joseph Roth's short story about a provincial Austrian stationmaster's coup de foudre.

Iain Glen reads Joseph Roth's short story of a chance encounter between a provincial Austrian stationmaster and a beautiful Russian countess.

To accompany tonight's Prom concert of Mahler's Symphony No 1, a short story from the great Austrian writer Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann. The reader is Iain Glen. 

After a terrible railway accident outside his provincial Austrian station, a married stationmaster takes care of the beautiful Russian Countess Walevska. She recuperates in his house for several days, before leaving to join her husband. But she is to leave a profound and fatal influence in the house and heart of the stationmaster.

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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