The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Dramatised for radio by the award-winning writer Hanif Kureishi.
160/44; 101.6 MB; sound quality excellent
Monday Play, 29 November 1982
Afternoon Theatre, 5 December 1982
Drama Now (Radio 3), 3 July 1983
Rebroadcast on Radio 4 Extra, 04 October 2014
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Joseph K. is an unexceptional man. He lives a quiet life and works in a bank. But one ordinary morning he is woken by two men and finds himself under arrest. From that moment on, Joseph K. enters a strange, bewildering world of nightmare in which he seems condemned from the start yet no one will tell him his crime.
The story epitomises the sense of confusion and despair that has come to be known as Kafkaesque. Written in German, Kafka always called the book Der Process, literally 'the process', but it was changed to The Trial in translation. It was written in 1914 but not published until a year after his death in 1925. Kafka used his own exhausting experiences of a legal case to inform the novel.
Cast:
Joseph K ... Mike Gwilym
Leni ... Miriam Margolyes
The Advocate ... Nigel Graham
Uncle ... Stephen Thorne
Titorelli/The Whipper ... Jim Reid
Willem ... David Peart
Franz ... Stuart Organ
Frau Grubach ... Madi Hedd
Inspector ... Simon Hewitt
Neighbour ... Eva Stuart
Block ... Michael Bilton
Woman in the Courtroom ... Rosalind Adams
Examining Magistrate ... Edward Cast
Secretary ... Jean Trend
Girl ... Wendy Murray
Representative of Enquiries Dept ... Ray Jones
Bank Clerk ... Robin Browne
The Priest ... Hugh Dickson
Produced by David Spenser
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Thanks, Rick!
Thank you, Rick!