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New production of Marlowe's Dr Faustus part of Radio 3's autumn drama line-up
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A new production of Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus, and a new play by Mike Walker, Babel's Tower, inspired by the writings of Russian journalist and playwright Isaac Babel and recently released KGB files detailing his imprisonment, are among the highlights of 大象传媒 Radio 3's Drama On 3 autumn schedule.
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Toby Jones, Paterson Joseph and Ray Fearon star in Marlowe's classic, The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus. Based on the German legend of Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the Devil for knowledge and power, this new production has been made in association with the Open University.
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Starring Sir Antony Sher, Robert Glenister and Stephen Noonan, Babel's Tower tells of the last days of Isaac Babel, the Russian war correspondent and screenwriter who fell foul of the KGB. Mike Walker's play imagines Babel being interrogated after his arrest in 1939.
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As he is beaten and bullied, characters from his two great collections of stories come to him; the Jewish gangsters fighting over Odessa from The Odessa Tales and the Red Army Cavalry who he rode with as a war correspondent.
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Other autumnal drama highlights on Radio 3 include After The Quake, a Simon McBurney adaptation of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's poetic stories about people caught up in the aftershock of a natural disaster, inspired by the Kobe earthquake.
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Set in February 1995 the central characters live far away from the physical devastation but the massive destruction unleashed by the earth becomes a turning point in their lives.
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In Seven Wonders Of The Divided World, seven international writers living near political barriers contribute their short plays to create a global picture of life around the world's borders, starring Danny Sapani, Miriam Karlin and Bert Kwuok.
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From the disputed border in Cyprus to the politically sensitive border between North and South Korea, Seven Wonders Of The Divided World examines life, death, cross-border smuggling and political divisions which characterise borders across the globe.
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Seeing It Through is a new play by Neil Brand about the use of propaganda as a political tool by the British Government in the First World War, orchestrated by a secretive and powerful cabinet minister, Charles Masterman.
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Told through the eyes of Masterman's secretary, Jean Hopkins, Seeing It Through details how Masterman recruited the artistic and literary elite, including Arthur Conan Doyle and HG Wells, to unite the nation behind a potentially controversial foreign war.
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