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Classic Serial: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Pip Carter

Michael Maloney

Barbara Flynn

Joseph Millson

Clare Corbett

Carl Prekopp

Rosa Calcraft

Millie Binks

Colleen Prendergast

Shaun Prendergast

Jane Purcell

Andrew Cullimore

Ben Crowe

Stephen Critchlow

Peter Marinker

Gerard McDermott

Alison Pettit

Thomas Mann

Chris Wallis

Classic Serial: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks: Episode 2

Buddenbrooks

Episode 2

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks, Episode 2

It's 1848 and the revolution comes to Lubeck. The story of a German merchant family.

It's 1848 and the revolution comes to Lubeck. The story of a German merchant family. Stars Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn.

Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico Muhly.

Michael Maloney, Barbara Flynn. Joseph Millson and Clare Corbett 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 seem to work. It's 1848, and the revolutionary tide running through Europe has finally reached Lubeck. Will the old merchant families hold on to power? Of the Buddenbrook children, only Tom remains to learn the business. Toni is in Hamburg married to Herr Grunlich, and Christian has gone to England but would rather be in Valparaiso.

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


Directed by Chris Wallis
An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4.

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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

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