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Ed Harris

John Taylor

Drama on 4: Franz Kafka - The Castle: Episode 1

Episode 1

Franz Kafka - The Castle

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Franz Kafka - The Castle, Episode 1

Franz Kafka's novel. A stranger is lured into a bureaucratic world of wonder and terror.

4 Extra Debut. A stranger's summons to the Castle leads him into a bureaucratic wonderland of terror and insanity. Starring Dominic Rowan.

In Franz Kafka’s mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic wonderland, the hapless land-surveyor known only as K answers a summons to work at the mysterious Castle, only to find himself drawn into a labyrinth of terror and absurdity.
   
K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DOMINIC ROWAN
Frieda. . . . . . . . . . . .SAMMY T DOBSON
Jeremias. . . . . . . . . .MARK BENTON
Artur . . . . . . . . . . . .DANIEL WEYMAN
Teacher . . . . . . . . . .STEPHEN GREIF
Gardena and Amalia. .RACHEL BAVIDGE
Olga . . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA ELLIOTT
Barnabas . . . . . . . . .NEIL GRAINGER
Chief Superintendent JONATHAN CULLEN
Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . DOMINIC DEAKIN
with the Jackie Palmer Children’s Choir
 
Dramatist: Ed Harris
 
Producer: John Taylor
A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2015.

Drama on 4: Franz Kafka - The Castle

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By Franz Kafka. A stranger is lured into a bureaucratic world of wonder and terror.

Adaptation of Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel. A stranger's summons to the mysterious castle leads him into a bureaucratic wonderland of terror and insanity.

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