A multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned radio stories about this most beguiling of cities.
Goodnight, Vienna
The Last Train
Vienna, 1939. Leah is hurried through the streets by her mother to try and catch the last Kindertransport (the means by which thousands of children were evacuated from mainland Europe) out of the city.
Writer: Jo Baker
Reader: Bryony Hannah
Jonke's Schnitzel
The Narrenturm, or ‘Tower Of Fools’, was once the principal mental asylum in Vienna. It has now been reopened. But to what purpose?
Writer: James Hopkin
Reader: Tim McInnerny
A Bird In Vienna
An old woman in America remembers a moment from her Viennese childhood in the 1930s.
Writer: Louise Stern
Reader: Eleanor Bron
First Broadcast:
Sunday 21st/28th December/4th January 2014 at 19:45 on BBC Radio 4
Production Credits:
Broadcast Assistant: Sarah Tombling
Sound Engineer: Jon Calver
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
Executive Producer: Karen Rose
Music: Symphony No.2 in C Minor (1st movement) by Gustav Mahler & performed by Klavierduo Trenkner-Speidel and Symphony No.1 in D Major (3rd movement) by Gustav Mahler & performed by Klavierduo Trenkner-Speidel
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