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Beware Of Pity by Stefan Zweig
Saturday-Night Theatre: Beware of Pity
Sat 16th Dec 1961, 20:30 on BBC Home Service Basic
By Stefan Zweig, adapted for radio by Gert Westphal translated by H. B. Guest
Music By: -Peter Zwetkoff
Produced By: -Martyn C. Webster
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.
The commentator: -Simon Lack
The chemist: -James Thomason
Lieutenant Hofmiller: -David Peel
Baron Kekesfalva: -George Hagan
Edith, his daughter: -Sheila Grant
Ilona, his niece: -June Tobin
Dr Condor: -Rolf Lefebvre
Mrs Condor: -Hilda Kriseman
Other parts played by James Beattie and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of his barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder, yet one that will go on to destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.
"Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back." —Salman Rushdie
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