Esi Edugyan’s novel begins shortly after the fall of Paris in 1940. Hieronymus Falk – a brilliant young jazz trumpeter who made his name in Berlin – is arrested in a café and never seen nor heard from again. He is black – and a German citizen.
Half Blood Blues
First Broadcast:
Monday - Friday, 27th June-8th July 2011 at 22:45 on BBC Radio 4
Production Credits:
Writer: Esi Edugyan
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Reader: Ricky Fearon
Broadcast Assistant: Sarah Tombling
Sound Engineer: Lucinda Mason Brown
Producer: Rosalynd Ward
Executive Producer: Karen Rose
Music: La Vie En Rosa – French Kiss by Louis Armstrong, Cootie’s Concerto (Echoes Of Harlem) by Cootie Williams, (When We Are Dancin) I Get Ideas by Louis Armstrong, Generique by Miles Davis, (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue by Louis Armstrong & The Horst Wessel Song by Horst Ludwig Wessel