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Kafka's Dick

Kafka's Dick

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 3
  • 2023
  • 1 episode

Adaptation of Alan Bennett's play about troubled author Franz Kafka. Also features Toby Jones, Mark Heap, Jason Watkins, Fenella Woolgar, Jim Broadbent and Don Warrington

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2023
Channel
BBC Radio 3
Episodes
1
Stars
Toby Jones, Mark Heap, Jason Watkins, Fenella Woolgar, Jim Broadbent and Don Warrington
Writer
Alan Bennett
Director
Dermot Daly
Producers
Eloise Whitmore and Polly Thomas
Company

First performed in 1986 at London's Royal Court, Alan Bennett's Kafka's Dick is presented in a new production. The witty and irreverent play has a simple central premise: Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod, returned from the dead, find themselves in the suburban home of Sydney, a Kafka fanatic, and his less literary minded wife, Linda. Brod spends the entire play trying to hide the fact that he did not burn Kafka's papers, as promised, but had them all published, thus making his friend one of the world's best-known writers. Along the way paternal relationships are examined. Kafka and his father Herman K's relative penis size become crucial to the plot whilst Sydney's Father, who pops in and out of the action, is increasingly convinced that these strange visitors are assessing him for a place in a care home.

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 2nd April 2023 at 8:30pm on BBC Radio 3
Episode length
95 minutes

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