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Caryl Churchill Schreber's Nervous Illness (BBC R3

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BBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1972
Episodes
1
Language
English

Caryl Churchill - Schreber's Nervous Illness (BBC R3 1972-07-25)

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First broadcast: Tue 25th Jul 1972, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3

Caryl Churchill’s radio play Schreber's Nervous Illness is based on Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by former judge Daniel Paul Schreber, who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic and wrote his memoirs there. The play was first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 25 July 1972.

The play charts the progression of Schreber’s nervous illness through his own testimony, with interjections from his psychiatrist, Dr Weber. Schreber believed that God was trying to transform him into a woman and that his mind had become a battleground between the forces of light and darkness.

The BBC Radio 3 production was directed by John Tydeman, with a cast including Kenneth Haigh as Schreber and William Fox as Weber.

(based on Memoirs of My Nervous Illness) by Daniel Paul Schreber, translated by Ida MacAlpine and Richard A. Hunter

Time: 1893-1902

Place: Asylums in Leipzig and Dresden

Contributors

Writer: Caryl Churchill

Based on "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness" by: Daniel Paul Schreber

Translated by: Ida MacAlpine and Richard A. Hunter

Special sound: Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Producer: John Tydeman

Schreber: Kenneth Haigh

Narrator: Lewis Stringer

Weber, a psychiatrist: William Fox

The judge: John Ruddock

Voices: Sheila Grant

Voices: Brian Haines

Voices: Michael Kilgarriff

Voices: John Samson

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Schreber's Nervous Illness (BBC R3

    · 51 min

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