'Another chance to hear Roger James Elsgood's remarkable adaption of the award-winning novel by Anne Michaels. Anyone who has read the book - an under-the-skin exploration of the Holocaust's legacy - will be wondering how all that layered poetic imagery could possibly adapt to the spoken word. The success of this production is that it uses creative elements more often found in contemporary music including sound textures by the audio artist Scanner' Anne Karpf. The Guardian

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Drama on 3 BBC Radio 3

An original adaptation by Roger James Elsgood for BBC Radio 3 of Anne Michaels’s Orange Prize winning novel.1999. With Timothy Ackroyd, John Hug and Dee Hart.

Music specially composed by Trilok Gurtu and Scanner
Adapted, directed and produced by Roger James Elsgood

 

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