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Hitler has a gift for oratory and party membership is growing - every week he draws a larger crowd. The party formally changes its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party – soon everyone will be calling it Na-Zi for short – and publishes its first (and last) party manifesto.

Point 4: No Jew Can Be A German. But in his speeches, Hitler still reserves his vilest attacks for the November Traitors, namely any politician who signed the Versailles Treaty and plunged Germany into third-class status.

But all this campaigning costs - they need someone to introduce them to wealthy sponsors. Will Helene Bechstein, whose husband inherited the piano company, be able to help?

But when Mussolini takes power in Italy, everyone is asking when Hitler will launch his own coup.

Starring Nancy Carroll as Helene Bechstein, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler and featuring Edward Bennett as Gottfried Feder, the Nazi Party’s first economist, and Joseph Alessi as Ernst Röhm.

Cast:
Helene Bechstein - NANCY CARROLL
Adolf Hitler - TOM MOTHERSDALE
Ernst Röhm - JOSEPH ALESSI
Karl Harrer - OSCAR BATTERHAM
Gottfried Feder - EDWARD BENNETT
Rudolf Hess - GEORGE KEMP
Anton Drexler - JACK LASKEY
Other parts were played by: WILLIAM CHUBB, NICHOLAS FARRELL, SCOTT KARIM, SORCHA KENNEDY,
MICHAEL MALONEY, FORBES MASSON, LYNNE MILLER and ANDREW WOODALL
The Narrator is JULIET STEVENSON

Sound Designer – ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager – MARK SMITH
Casting Director – GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score – METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director – JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer – NICHOLAS NEWTON

A Promenade production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds