蜜芽传媒

It is 1945. For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the sleepy railway station in Bohemia is full of complex preoccupations.

There's the burden of dispatching German troop trains; the shocking scandal of Dispatcher Hubicka; and the vexing problem of his sexual performance.

Celebrated Czech author Bohumil Hrabal's classic of post-war literature is a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism.

First published in 1965 and dramatised by Ian Kershaw

Milos ..... John Bradley
Masha/Virginia ..... Verity Henry
Hubicka ..... Jason Done
Lansky ..... Howard Chadwick
Mother/Viktoria ..... Fiona Clarke
Slusny/Father ..... Jonathan Keeble
Zednicek ..... Hamilton Berstock

Director: Gary Brown

First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in August 2015.

*** The novel also became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring'