The Castle

Original version

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Drama on 4

Drama

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 LW

Dominic Rowan

Sammy T Dobson

Mark Benton

Daniel Weyman

Stephen Greif

Rachel Bavidge

Victoria Elliott

Neil Grainger

Jonathan Cullen

Dominic Deakin

Franz Kafka

Ed Harris

John Taylor

Drama on 4: Franz Kafka - The Castle: Episode 1

Episode 1

Franz Kafka - The Castle

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Franz Kafka - The Castle, Episode 1

Franz Kafka's novel. A stranger is lured into a bureaucratic world of wonder and terror.

4 Extra Debut. A stranger's summons to the Castle leads him into a bureaucratic wonderland of terror and insanity. Starring Dominic Rowan.

In Franz Kafka’s mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic wonderland, the hapless land-surveyor known only as K answers a summons to work at the mysterious Castle, only to find himself drawn into a labyrinth of terror and absurdity.
   
K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DOMINIC ROWAN
Frieda. . . . . . . . . . . .SAMMY T DOBSON
Jeremias. . . . . . . . . .MARK BENTON
Artur . . . . . . . . . . . .DANIEL WEYMAN
Teacher . . . . . . . . . .STEPHEN GREIF
Gardena and Amalia. .RACHEL BAVIDGE
Olga . . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA ELLIOTT
Barnabas . . . . . . . . .NEIL GRAINGER
Chief Superintendent JONATHAN CULLEN
Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . DOMINIC DEAKIN
with the Jackie Palmer Children’s Choir
 
Dramatist: Ed Harris
 
Producer: John Taylor
A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2015.

Drama on 4: Franz Kafka - The Castle

BBC Radio 4

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

By Franz Kafka. A stranger is lured into a bureaucratic world of wonder and terror.

Adaptation of Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel. A stranger's summons to the mysterious castle leads him into a bureaucratic wonderland of terror and insanity.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Drama on 4

Franz Kafka - The Castle

Episode 1

Contributors

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 4 Extra

About BBC Radio 4 Extra