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Fatherland

By: Robert Harris
Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Full Cast
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About this listen

 Anton Lesser stars as a Berlin detective who stumbles upon the 20th century's most terrifying secret in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Harris's bestselling novel. The year is 1964, and it's a week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Nazi Germany won the Second World War, Churchill is living in exile in Canada, Joseph Kennedy is President of the United States, and King Edward and Queen Wallis are puppet monarchs of the United Kingdom. In this dimension, history took a very different turn in 1942 to the one we are familiar with... Produced by the award-winning John Dryden, this dramatisation of Robert Harris's thriller, with an atmospheric soundtrack recorded on location, is a rollercoaster ride of intrigue, suspense and passion.© and (P)2003 BBC Audiobooks Ltd Audio Performances & Dramatisations Dramatisations Espionage Historical Mystery Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Royalty Adaptation Exciting

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This story is dark and compelling, and easily one of the best i've heard.



It takes a what-if (the Nazis won the war) scenario and creates a murky, atmospheric cold war style thriller out of it.



It had all the same feel of dark politics and betrayal you get from the BBC adaptations of the John Le Carre novels, and, in many ways, the same kind of atmosphere.

Masterpiece of audio theatre.

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Evil as banal. How would a society based on Nazi principles operate? This story I think gives a good idea.

Anton Lesser is brilliant.

I read the book and enjoyed it but this dramatized audio version is great.

Captivating!

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A Fabulous alternative to our history, very thought provoking. I really loved it 10/10 !

Brilliant

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Good - but too abridged since some the real scene setting in the book has been lost. Does not really capture what a Germany in 1960 still under the third Reich and after holding territory won early in the war might have looked like which comes over so clearly in book. There in the background but you really have to be concentrating to pick it up. Also depends on many sound effects which can be distracting since not always clear what they are meant to represent. However, good precis of original and chilling glimpse of what might have been.

Good - but lacks the depth of book. However good for a couple of hours in car

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This dramatisation captures the atmosphere of Berlin as a dark, foreboding, and scary place during the 1960s. I was reminded of Orwell's 1984. The premise is the Nazi's won WW2 and rule with an iron fist. But all is not as it seems - fear, corruption, lies, and secrets, are the every day experience of the population. Detective Xavier March investigating a murder, inadvertently uncovers a secret so horrifying...
I've read the book many years ago, and while the dramatisation is short on content, you get the nuts and bolts of the story. Well worth a listen.

What if?.. Chilling drama

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