BBC Radio 4
12 August 2012
Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico Muhly.
Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn star in this story of an old Hanseatic merchant family fighting to keep their commercial supremacy in the changing world of 1840s Europe.
Four generations of Buddenbrooks try to sustain their inheritance - a once highly successful trading company in the port of Lubeck on the Baltic Sea - in a world where the old ways no longer work.
Harmonium and Flute by Rick Juckes.
Technical Presentation by David Fleming Williams.
Produced by Chris Wallis
A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4.
