Franz Kafka - The Castle Drama]

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012015051020150516 (R4)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.

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

022015051720150523 (R4)While K continues to seek a meeting with the elusive official Klamm, his relationship with Frieda is under strain. He suspects her of maintaining a secret tryst with Klamm, and she of a dalliance with Barnabas' two sisters.

Conclusion of Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic wonderland,

K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DOMINIC ROWAN

Frieda. . . . . . . . . . . .SAMMY T DOBSON

Jeremias. . . . . . . . . .MARK BENTON

Artur . . . . . . . . . . . .DANIEL WEYMAN

Teacher . . . . . . . . . .STEPHEN GREIF

Amalia. . . . . . . . . . . RACHEL BAVIDGE

Olga . . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA ELLIOTT

Barnabas . . . . . . . . . NEIL GRAINGER

Papa and Burgel . . . . JONATHAN CULLEN

Momus and Fire Chief TREVOR FOX

Hollister and Erlanger ROSS WAITON

Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . DOMINIC DEAKIN

Children: ALEX TAYLOR-McDOWELL, ALICE

MARTIN, MADDIE HILL, TEGAN WILLIAMS

Dramatist: Ed Harris

Producer: John Taylor

A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2015.

Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel. K is desperate to make a meeting with the elusive Klamm.