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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table

Ben Crowe

Evie Killip

Primo Levi

Graham White

Marc Beeby

Emma Harding

Primo Levi's The Periodic Table: Episode 3: Sulphur and Titanium

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Episode 3

Episode 3: Sulphur and Titanium

Sulphur and Titanium

BBC Radio 4 - Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Sulphur and Titanium

Janet Suzman introduces two of Levi's short stories themed around the chemical elements.

Ben Crowe plays a boilerman who saves Primo's factory from disaster, and Evie Killip reads a short story about a little girl who is fascinated by a man painting with white paint.

Janet Suzman introduces a major new dramatization of Primo Levi's short stories about our human relationship with the chemical elements - a book the Royal Institution of Great Britain named 'the best science book ever'. Dramatised by Graham White from the translation by Raymond Rosenthal. 

1) Sulphur - Ben Crowe plays a boilerman who saves Primo's factory from disaster.
2) Titanium - Evie Killip reads this short story about a little girl who is fascinated by a man painting with white paint

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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