BBC R3 - Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire' sp7

BBC R3 - Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'

Adapted by Robert Forrest

Directed by Patrick Rayner

Broadcast November 28, 2004

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain

By the false azure in the windowpane"



American poet John Shade and the obsessions of Charles

Kinbote his mad - & possibly regal - European stalker.



Retains some of the flavour of Nabokov's strange but

very readable novel, but it could not emulate the sneaky

way the novel reveals and obscures.



Well worth a listen for all that.



Cast

Charles Kinbote - Finlay Welsh

John Shade - Angus Macinnes

Sybil Shade - Joanna Tope

Professor Hurley - Crawford Logan

Odon - Richard Greenwood

Disa - Gayanne Potter

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