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Four strangers meet in a New York bar on All Hallows Eve and embark on a fantastic journey. WH Auden鈥檚 extraordinary verse epic for four voices is dramatised by Robin Brooks.

Auden鈥檚 long poem The Age of Anxiety was written at the peak of his powers, and is claimed by many as his masterpiece. It contains passages of striking beauty, as powerful as anything he wrote. It is written in the form of a strange verse-drama: four characters, all single, lonely and adrift, spend an evening together, as Auden takes them on a fantastic voyage into memory and myth, in search of a way to solve the problems which have created this age of anxiety, the age in which we all now live.

AUDEN ..... Julian Bleach
QUANT ..... Jonjo O'Neill
MALIN ..... John Light
ROSETTA ..... Genevieve Gaunt
EMBLE ..... Luke Thallon

Sound Design by Jon Nicholls
Produced and Directed by Fiona McAlpine

An Allegra Production for 麻豆社 Radio 3

Picture Credit: Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper
Courtesy of the The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY/ Scala, Florence