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Hitler’s strange dealings with the opposite sex come into sharp focus when his niece, aged 23, living in Hitler’s apartment, shoots herself. Geli first moved in when she was 18 but from that moment on, Hitler refuses to let her go out on her own, even chaperoned. He nurtures hopes that she will become an opera singer and, enraged by the very idea, refuses her permission to marry.

Was it suicide? Was it murder? Was it an accident?

But, only weeks later, Hitler encounters an elegant, divorced woman at his Berlin hotel – he finds that he is unexpectedly drawn to her. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know that Magda Quandt is already involved with his Head of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

But that isn’t Goebbels’ only headache - the first great love of Magda’s life was Chaim Arlosoroff, fervent Zionist. Nevertheless Hitler’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess, sees a perfect compromise - if Joseph and Magda marry, she will thus become the perfect companion for a Führer who is ‘married to Germany’. Can he convince everyone?

Starring Shanaya Rafaat as Magda Goebbels, Alexander Vlahos as Joseph Goebbels, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler and featuring Tanvi Virmani as Geli Raubal and George Kemp as Rudolf Hess.

Cast:
Geli Raubal - TANVI VIRMANI
Magda Goebbels - SHANAYA RAFAAT
Adolf Hitler - TOM MOTHERSDALE
Emil Maurice - OSCAR BATTERHAM
Otto Meissner - EDWARD BENNETT
Sefton Delmer - ADITOMIWA EDUN
Anni Winter - MELODY GROVE
Putzi Hanfastaengl - COREY JOHNSON
Herman Göring - SCOTT KARIM
Rudolf Hess - GEORGE KEMP
Mimi Reiter - SORCHA KENNEDY
Joseph Goebbels - ALEXANDER VLAHOS
Other parts were played by: JOSEPH ALESSI, WILLIAM CHUBB, JACK LASKEY, MICHAEL MALONEY,
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
Producer – NICHOLAS NEWTON
Writer and Director – JONATHAN MYERSON

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