The Ghost Sonata

aka The Sunday Play: The Ghost Sonata

Writer: August Strindberg
Translator: Michael Meyer
Directed by Andy Jordan

First Broadcast: Sun 26th June 1994
BBC Radio 3





  • Frank Finlay . . . . . . . . . Old Man
    Alan Cox . . . . . . . . . Student
    Frederick Treves . . . . . . . . . Colonel
    Dorothy Tutin . . . . . . . . . Mummy
    Saskia Wickham . . . . . . . . . Daughter
    Trevor Peacock . . . . . . . . . Johansson
    Brett Usher . . . . . . . . . Bengtsson
    Jill Graham . . . . . . . . . Cook

    August Strindberg's ghoulish masterpiece. A poor student chances on a rich old invalid and is invited to a ghost supper where adultery, murder, deceit and betrayal are stripped bare in the house of the living dead.

    Radio Times Sun 26th June 1994