Una drammatizzazione del Processo di Kafka fa parte di uno speciale audio della BBC di 12 ore intitolato Orwell vs Kafka. C’è anche un’analisi del Processo e una serie in sei parti che discute le somiglianze e le differenze tra le visioni di Kafka e Orwell e il modo in cui si svolgono nel mondo moderno. MiC

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**Drama on 4, Orwell vs Kafka: The Trial**

> On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K is arrested. But his crime is not revealed.

> In attempting to establish his innocence, K steps into a nightmarish world of institutional absurdity he can’t escape.

> The most quintessentially ‘Kafkaesque’ of Kafka’s work, The Trial is a sinister satire, charting one man’s descent into self-destruction in the face of a society that has become a machine. This daring, debauched and darkly comic adaptation is written by award-winning dramatist Ed Harris.

> CAST (in order of appearance)
> K ….. Iwan Rheon
> Franz/Albert ….. Phil Davis
> Willem/Magistrate ….. Lee Ross
> Mrs Godbee ….. Nina Wadia
> Eliška/Supervisor ….. Celeste Dring
> Edmund ….. Rick Warden
> Thrasher ….. Jason Barnett
> Dr Huld ….. Adrian Scarborough
> Leni ….. Gwyneth Keyworth
> Block ….. Mark Heap

> Dramatist ….. Ed Harris
> Director ….. Anne Isger
> Sound ….. Pete Ringrose and Keith Graham
> Production Co-ordinators ….. Sara Benaim and Daniel Bishop
> A BBC Studios Audio Production

> With thanks to Abigail Le Fleming for playing the recorder.

> Ed Harris is an award-winning dramatist and comedy writer. He has had over 20 audio plays broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, as well as three series of his popular wartime sitcom, DOT. His work has won numerous awards including two Writers’ Guild Awards, a BBC Audio Drama Award and a Sony Gold/Radio Academy Award. His stage plays include STRANGERS LIKE ME (National Theatre Connections), MONGREL ISLAND (Soho Theatre), NEVER EVER AFTER (shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award) and WHAT THE THUNDER SAID (Theatre Centre). He is a current Royal Literary Fellow at Brighton University and Writer-in-Residence for the Oxford Kafka 2024 programme at Oxford University.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00201sr

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00201sr

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I’ve added a few of the links and prospective links below but this is _not an exhaustive list_ so see the Radio 4 schedule or BBC Sounds (app and web-browser) schedule for the rest of them if you’re interested.

Also note that these audios are usually online for 30 days from their last ‘broadcast’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7j

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**Opening Lines**

> John Yorke explores the enduring mystery and power of Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial.

> All Joseph K was expecting when he awoke was breakfast. Instead he is arrested for a nameless crime and finds his life gradually, utterly consumed by the process. Set in a nameless city very like the twisting alleyways and cramped confines of Kafka’s Prague, the book was only published after the writer’s death. Since then, it has become a world famous tale of unending, indefinable bureaucratic unease.

> John Yorke has worked in television and radio for 30 years, and he shares his experience with Radio 4 listeners as he unpacks the themes and impact of the books, plays and stories that are being dramatised in BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Drama series. From EastEnders to The Archers, Life on Mars to Shameless, he has been obsessed with telling big popular stories. He has spent years analysing not just how stories work but why they resonate with audiences around the globe and has brought together his experience in his bestselling book Into the Woods.

> As former Head of Channel Four Drama, Controller of BBC Drama Production and MD of Company Pictures, John has tested his theories during an extensive production career working on some of the world’s most lucrative, widely viewed and critically acclaimed TV drama. As founder of the hugely successful BBC Writers Academy John has trained a generation of screenwriters

> Contributors:
> Professor Carolin Duttlinger-Co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre
> Ed Harris – Playwright who has adapted Kafka’s work for a major season on BBC Radio 4

> Readings from The Trial by Franz Kafka trans. Mike Mitchell (Oxford World’s Classic 2009)

> Reader: Jack Klaff
> Researcher: Nina Semple
> Production Manager: Sarah Wright
> Sound Designer: Sean Kerwin
> Producer: Mark Burman
> Executive Producer: Sara Davies

> A Pier production for BBC Radio 4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00201sp (after broadcast)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00201sp

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**Orwell vs Kafka, e1/6, Battle of the Adjectives**

> George Orwell and Franz Kafka became two of the most influential writers of the 20th century and their ideas still resonate powerfully today.

> In the first episode of Orwell vs Kafka, Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis explore the two adjectives that have arisen from the writing of both men. But what exactly do we mean by Orwellian or Kafkaesque?

> Professor Carolin Duttlinger of Wadham College, Oxford and Orwell Biographer DJ Taylor are on hand to wrestle with definitions, while Ian and Helen also hear from New Yorker cartoonist Evan Lian, who made fun of people who use the terms endlessly.

> They also find a vivid illustration of the very particular dystopias conjured up by both Orwell and Kafka in the form of the Post Office horizon scandal, hearing from Alan Bates about his experience of striving against injustice in a system that seemed stacked against him.

> Producer: Tom Alban

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00201vk (after broadcast)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00201vk

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**Kafka the Musical** (with David Tennant)

> The magnetic performance that won David Tennant “Best Actor” at the inaugural BBC Audio Drama Awards for his part as Franz Kafka.

> Murray Gold’s play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life.

> The play – or is it the musical? – introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life, Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer.

> Franz Kafka ….. David Tennant
> Father ….. David Fleeshman
> Mother ….. Joanna Monro
> Milena ….. Naomi Frederick
> Felice ….. Jessica Raine
> Dora ….. Emerald O’Hanrahan
> Barman / Singer / Doctor ….. Trevor Allan Davies
> Newspaper Seller / Man ….. Brian Bowles

> Music by Murray Gold.

> Director: Jeremy Mortimer

> First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April 2011.

> *** Murray Gold’s first radio play Electricity won the Richard Imison award for best new play after its broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2001.

> It subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2004 and was performed with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Other plays include 50 Revolutions performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre, London in 2000 and Resolution at Battersea Arts Centre in 1994, and Little Joe and His Struggle Against the World (Radio 3 2005).

> Murray has been nominated for a BAFTA four times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006) and Doctor Who (2008). He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series Shameless and scored the period drama The Devil’s Whore. More recently Murray Gold scored another David Tennant series, BBC1’s Single Father.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b010glpd

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010glpd

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