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1. Seeds of Unrest

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Elite intellectual Joseph Knecht feels compelled to rebel against the utopian society he once idolised. Stars Derek Jacobi.

Joseph Knecht is a rising star in the Castalian Order, a band of elite intellectuals who live a closeted life of study and Glass Bead Game playing.

But Joseph's elevation to one of the highest and most respected ranks of The Order coincides with a crisis of conscience.

His ever-deepening doubts about this idealistic and sanitised society threaten to topple its very foundations...

Hermann Hesse's classic novel set in a futuristic, utopian society - first published in 1943.

Starring Derek Jacobi and Tom Ferguson.

Dramatised in two parts by Lavinia Greenlaw

Biographer 鈥�. Derek Jacobi
Joseph Knecht 鈥�. Tom Ferguson
Young Joseph 鈥�. Aidan Parsons
Music Master 鈥�. Malcolm Raeburn
Teacher/Van Der Trave 鈥�. Terence Mann
Plinio 鈥�. David Seddon
Fritz 鈥�. Toby Hadoke
Father Jacobus 鈥�. David Fleeshman
Bertram 鈥�. Jonathan Keeble

String Player: Kevin Flynn

Producer: Charlotte Riches

Director: Susan Roberts

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in July 2010.

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