BBC R3 - Josef Škvorecký's 'The Bass Saxophone'
Adapted by Nigel Baldwin
Music composed by Graham Collier
Featured saxophonist is Art Themen
Produced by Ned Chaillet
Broadcast June 19, 1990
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Thanks due to my sister for preserving this one

WWII yarn set in occupied Czechoslovakia. A boy is
fascinated by the bass saxophone in a German band.

I really like this one. The music is so apposite that,
after a while, the sax becomes just another character.

Sony Radio Award for best drama production, 1990.

Cast
Officer - David King
Clown Woman - Jo Kendall
Soldier - Ken Cumberlidge
Old Joseph - John Woodvine
Lothar Kunze - Danny Schiller
Cut-down Caesar - John Bull
Old Man - Michael Graham Cox
Saxophone player - Joe Dunlop
Young Joseph - Jonathan Cullen
The Swan - Elizabeth Mansfield
Horst Hermann Kuhl - Michael Kilgarriff

Musicians
Ian Wood
Mike Page
Mike Mower
Gary Howe
Art Themen
Kim Burton
Graham Clark
Howard Turner
Trevor Tompkins