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Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

Drama on 3: Faust

Johann von Goethe

Samuel West

Toby Jones

Stephen Critchlow

Emily Raymond

Gunnar Cauthery

Hugh Dickson

Anne-Marie Piazza

Sean Barrett

Gerard Horan

Auriol Smith

Peter Kenny

Daniel Mair

Roger Marsh

Norman Goodman

David Timson

Nicolas Soames

Drama on 3: Faust: Episode 2

Faust

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Faust, Episode 2

Samuel West and Toby Jones in Part 2 of Goethe's epic reflection on the human predicament.

David Timson's adaptation of Goethe's classic drama. A series of episodic scenes in which Faust and Mephistopheles travel through time, encountering various mythological figures.

by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, translated by John R. Williams, with Samuel West as Faust and Toby Jones as Mephistopheles. Adapted and directed by David Timson, with music composed by Roger Marsh.

Written late in Goethe's life, this second journey into the story of Faust presents a series of episodic scenes in which the poet places his eponymous hero in a variety of surprising circumstances reflecting the predicament of humanity. Funny, reflective and moving, this dramatisation shows why Goethe's Faust had such a massive influence on Western culture.

Musicians: The 24, directed by the composer with Peyee Chen (soprano) Georgina Wells (harp) and Mark Hutchinson (oboe) 
Sound Design and Additional Music by Norman Goodman.
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Goethe's Faust, one of the pillars of Western literature, in a version by David Timson

Goethe's Faust, one of the pillars of Western literature, presented in a dramatisation by David Timson

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