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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table

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Henry Goodman

Akbar Kurtha

Leo Wan

Erich Redman

David Hounslow

Sam Dale

Primo Levi

Graham White

Marc Beeby

Emma Harding

Primo Levi's The Periodic Table: Episode 8: Cerium

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Episode 8

Episode 8: Cerium

Cerium

BBC Radio 4 - Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Cerium

Primo's training as a chemist helps him to survive the terrible conditions of Auschwitz.

Henry Goodman and Akbar Kurtha star as older and younger Primo Levi in a major new dramatization of Levi's short stories about our human relationship with the chemical elements. 

Introduced by Janet Suzman and dramatised by Graham White from the translation by Raymond Rosenthal. 

Cerium: Primo's training as a chemist helps him to survive the terrible conditions of Auschwitz. 

Produced and directed by Emma Harding and Marc Beeby.

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

Drama: Relationships & Romance

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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