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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table

Henry Goodman

John Rowe

Erich Redman

Akbar Kurtha

Juliet Aubrey

Chris Pavlo

Primo Levi

Graham White

Marc Beeby

Emma Harding

Primo Levi's The Periodic Table: Episode 1: Vanadium, Part 1

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Episode 1

Episode 1: Vanadium, Part 1

Vanadium, Part 1

BBC Radio 4 - Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Vanadium, Part 1

Henry Goodman stars in a new dramatisation of Levi's stories about the elements of life.

Janet Suzman introduces a new dramatisation of Levi's stories about the elements of life, starring Henry Goodman, dramatised by Graham White. Primo receives a letter from his past.

Janet Suzman introduces a major new dramatization of Primo Levi's short stories about our human relationship with the chemical elements that make up our universe - a book the Royal Institution of Great Britain named 'the best science book ever'. Starring Henry Goodman, Akbar Kurtha, Erich Redman and Juliet Aubrey. Dramatized by Graham White from the translation by Raymond Rosenthal. 

Vanadium Part 1: In the course of his work as a chemist in a paint factory in the 1960s, Primo Levi receives a letter from one of the factory's German clients, signed by a Doktor Muller. Could this be the Doktor Muller who had overseen Levi's work as a prisoner in the lab at Auschwitz? 

Produced and directed by Marc Beeby and Emma Harding.

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

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Major dramatisation of Primo Levi's element-themed stories about life, work and matter.

Primo Levi's short stories about our human relationship with the chemical elements that make up our universe. Dramatized by Graham White from the translation by Raymond Rosenthal.

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