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2. Firing Line

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Sent to the Front in disgrace, will Svejk ultimately survive the killing fields of the First World War? Stars Sam Kelly.

Svejk and Lukas have been sent to the Front in disgrace. But Svejk gets waylaid by a gallery of grotesques.

Nevertheless, the good soldier - once discharged as an idiot - ploughs his patient furrow to the killing fields of the First World War.

Will he survive?

Conclusion of Jaroslav Hasek's classic anti-war satire highlighting the incompetencies of those 'in charge'...

Starring Sam Kelly and Adrian Lukis.

Dramatised by Christopher Reason

Svejk ........ Sam Kelly
Lukas ........ Adrian Lukis
Dub. ........ Nicholas Blane
Chodounsky ........ Malcolm Raeburn
Marek ........ Howard Chadwick
Police Sergeant ........ James Quinn
Von Schwarzberg. ........ Stuart Richman
Baloun ........ .Eric Potts
Lance Corporal ........ Mark Chatterton
Maid ........ Szilvi Naray Davey
Vodicka. ........ Bernard Wrigley

Other parts played by members of the cast

Directed at BBC Manchester by Gary Brown

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008.

1 hour

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Sat 19 Jul 202505:00
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  • Sun 23 Nov 200815:00
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