2. Firing Line
Sent to the Front in disgrace, will Svejk ultimately survive the killing fields of the First World War? Stars Sam Kelly.
Svejk and Lukas have been sent to the Front in disgrace. But Svejk gets waylaid by a gallery of grotesques.
Nevertheless, the good soldier - once discharged as an idiot - ploughs his patient furrow to the killing fields of the First World War.
Will he survive?
Conclusion of Jaroslav Hasek's classic anti-war satire highlighting the incompetencies of those 'in charge'...
Starring Sam Kelly and Adrian Lukis.
Dramatised by Christopher Reason
Svejk ........ Sam Kelly
Lukas ........ Adrian Lukis
Dub. ........ Nicholas Blane
Chodounsky ........ Malcolm Raeburn
Marek ........ Howard Chadwick
Police Sergeant ........ James Quinn
Von Schwarzberg. ........ Stuart Richman
Baloun ........ .Eric Potts
Lance Corporal ........ Mark Chatterton
Maid ........ Szilvi Naray Davey
Vodicka. ........ Bernard Wrigley
Other parts played by members of the cast
Directed at 麻豆社 Manchester by Gary Brown
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in November 2008.
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Sun 23 Nov 2008 15:00麻豆社 Radio 4 FM- Sat 29 Nov 2008 21:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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