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Slaughterhouse 5

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Last broadcast on Sat, 13 Feb 2010, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4.

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Dramatisation by Dave Sheasby of the celebrated anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim, who hops back and forth in time, relives various moments in his real and fantasy lives, as a prisoner of war, optometrist and time traveller.

Narrator ...... John Guerassio
Billy Pilgrim ...... Andrew Scott
Bernard V O'Hare ...... Nathan Osgood
Mary ...... Joanne McQuinn
Montana ...... Annabelle Dowler
Barbara ...... Sarah Goldberg
Valencia ...... Madeleine Potter
Roland Weary ...... Simon Lee Philips
Mother ...... Liza Ross
Eliot Rosewater ...... Kerry Shale
Howard J Campbell Jnr ...... Stephen Hogan
Bertram Rumfoord ...... Peter Marinker
English Officer ...... Michael Mears
Cinderella ...... Philip Fox
Paul Lazarro ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Soldiers ...... Orlando James, Michael Shelford

Music by 65 Days of Static

Directed by David Hunter.

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  1. Sat 13 Feb 2010
    14:30

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