Drama on 3: Beethoven Can Hear You

Drama on 3: Beethoven can hear you

Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Drama on 3

Drama

Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

Beethoven Can Hear You

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Beethoven Can Hear YouClose menu

By Timothy X Atack. Original, immersive audio drama, starring Peter Capaldi as Beethoven.

By Timothy X Atack. Peter Capaldi stars as Ludwig van Beethoven in an immersive audio drama first broadcast in 2020 to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

By Timothy X Atack

Peter Capaldi stars as Ludwig van Beethoven, in an immersive drama first broadcast in 2020 to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Beethoven is visited by a deaf traveller from another time. The Visitor (Sophie Stone) is shocked to discover that Beethoven can hear; it seems that in this reality the composer never lost his hearing. Beethoven is haunted by the idea his ears could fail him. But the Visitor must make him understand his importance as history’s first deaf composer.

An immersive exploration of Beethoven and his music from writer Timothy X Atack (Forest 404) and with an original score from deaf composer Lloyd Coleman.

Beethoven .... Peter Capaldi
The Visitor .... Sophie Stone
Original Music .... Lloyd Coleman
Script Consultant .... Sophie Stone
Sound Design .... Catherine Robinson
Directed by James Robinson

A BBC Cymru Wales Production

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Drama on 3

Beethoven Can Hear You

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3