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Drama on 4: Machado de Assis - A Second Life

A Second Life

23/07/2009

Machado de Assis - A Second Life

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Machado de Assis - A Second Life

A man appeals to Heaven to allow him to be born again with 'experience'.

A man appeals to Heaven to be born again with 'experience', but it's no help in his second life. Comic drama starring John Bett.

Comic drama by Adam Beeson, adapted from a short story by the 19th-century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. Anxious to avoid all the mistakes in his life, a man appeals to Heaven to allow him to be born again with 'experience'. But in his second life this precious knowledge proves no use at all.

Father Caldos ...... John Bett
Jose Maria ...... Richard Conlon
Dona Clemencia ...... Lucy Paterson
Lucas ...... John Macaulay
Prophet Job ...... Mark McDonnell

Other parts played by the cast.

Directed by Bruce Young.

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