Original version

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Classic Serial

Drama: Classic & Period

Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 LW

Classic Serial: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Pip Carter

Kenneth Cranham

Ann Beach

Michael Maloney

Barbara Flynn

Clare Corbett

Rosa Calcraft

Angus Imrie

Thiago Los

Scott Smith

Gene Goodman

Alison Pettit

Shaun Prendergast

Stephen Critchlow

Ben Crowe

Peter Marinker

Carl Prekopp

Andrew Cullimore

Millie Binks

Karolina Cybulski

Serena Lamble

Priyanka Patel

Spike White

Thomas Mann

Chris Wallis

Classic Serial: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks: Episode 1

Buddenbrooks

Episode 1

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks, Episode 1

A German family fight to keep their supremacy in the changing world of 1840s Europe.

A German merchant family fight to keep their supremacy in the changing world of 1840s Europe. Stars Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn.

Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico Muhly.

Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn star in this story of an old Hanseatic merchant family fighting to keep their commercial supremacy in the changing world of 1840s Europe.

Four generations of Buddenbrooks try to sustain their inheritance - a once highly successful trading company in the port of Lubeck on the Baltic Sea - in a world where the old ways no longer work. 

Harmonium and Flute by Rick Juckes.
Technical Presentation by David Fleming Williams.


Produced by Chris Wallis
A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4.

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

A German merchant family fight to keep their supremacy in the world of 1840s Europe

Thomas Mann's 1901 novel is dramatised by Judith Adams. A German merchant family fight to keep their supremacy in the changing world of 1840s Europe

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Classic Serial

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Episode 1

Contributors

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 4 Extra

About BBC Radio 4 Extra