BBC R3 - Primo Levi's 'If Not Now, When?'
Adapted by Jeremy Howe
Music and songs by Gary Yershon
Produced by Iain Hunter and Jeremy Howe
Broadcast May 8, 2005
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Dramatisation of Primo Levi's inspiring novel broadcast
to mark the sixtieth anniversary of VE day.

Based on a true story told to Levi. It follows Mendel,
a Red Army artilleryman, separated from his unit at the
Battle of Kursk, who links up with a group of Jewish
partisans who fight their way west across Ukraine, Poland
and Germany hoping to reach Palestine via Italy.

A sensitive production of an extraordinary tale.

Cast
Narrator - Corin Redgrave
Mendel - Mark Meadows
Gedaleh - Jonathan Tafler
Jozek/Chaim - Chris Donnelly
Dov/Captain Smirnov - Kenneth Collard
Ulybin/Edek - Carl Prekopp
Leonid - Jonathan Gunning
Pavel - Chris MacDonnell
Piotr - Nitzan Sharron
Mottel - Chris Garner
Line - Hayley Doherty
Rokhele - Amy Clifton

Musicians
Giles Broadbent
Graeme Taylor
Gary Yershon