Dream Story

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Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler: Episode 1

Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story

Episode 1

Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, Episode 1

Fantasy and jealousy: Arthur Schnitzler's psychological exploration of a marriage.

A young doctor must come to terms with his wife's erotic dreams. Psychological exploration of a marriage. Read by Paul Rhys.

The tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few escapades of his own...
 
The first of eight parts read by Paul Rhys.

Published in 1926, Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’ was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’.

Credited as the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film.

Translated by JMQ Davies.

Producer:  Eugene Murphy

Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003.

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