Franz and Felice

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

By Ed Harris

An intimate and mischievously punk telling of Franz Kafka’s most significant romantic relationship. Franz and Felice follows the twists and turns of the writer’s relationship with Felice Bauer, how events in their relationship burst violently into Kafka’s stories and imagination, and how his stories responded. And how everything, real and invented, played out in the shadow of his father, the dark presence always ready to enter from the room next door.

Narrator . . . . . Anton Lesser Franz . . . . . Ashley Margolis Felice . . . . . Abigail Weinstock Ottla . . . . . Anna Spearpoint Guide . . . . . Clare Corbett Max . . . . . Ian Dunnett Jnr Grete . . . . . Lily Anne Lefkow

Production co-ordinator: Ben Hollands Sound design: Peter Ringrose Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

A BBC Studios Audio production

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.

This drama was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Boxer turned bouncer Viv Graham was one of the northeast most notorious hard men.
0:06.5	It was huge, you were strong, we could take anybody out.
0:09.0	Not many men on earth could match Viv Graham.
0:11.6	But his life of violence led to his downfall.
0:15.0	Why did it happen?
0:16.0	Why did they do that?
0:17.3	How did Viv Graham build an empire?
0:19.8	It was the power, the presence, the aura. And who was he, really?
0:24.4	Gangster, the story of Vib Graham.
0:27.4	Listen first on BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:36.0	Welcome to Drama of the Week.
0:40.0	Friends and Felice by Ed Harris.
0:47.0	Out of the dark lights up on a map.
0:54.0	The man is 29, a civil servant, a vegetarian, a musephobe,
1:00.0	someone afraid of mice, an insomnia.
1:04.0	His father, a loud dominating giant,
1:08.0	reminds him daily that his grandfather
1:11.0	could lift a sack of potatoes with his teeth.
1:14.0	The man is embarrassed by his slight bill.
1:18.0	He has three sisters.
1:20.0	He is going to die.
1:22.0	He tells his housekeeper this.
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