Greetings From Fukushima Erhard Schmied

RTÉ Radio, Drama On One

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Greetings From Fukushima   By Erhard Schmied  Translated from the German by Andrew Morton A German detective drama about a nuclear family and the forty shades of Green The Fukushima meltdown in faraway Japan refreshed and fortified the terrible memory of Chernobyl at a time when Putin’s Gazprom grand-standing was beginning to impact European politics; but, however catastrophic the back-story, Erhard Schmied’s play is, in many ways, a nicely traditional thriller about eco-terrorism (and family secrets) in a genre that’s dominated nowadays by Nordic noir but is universally reliant on  the evergreen figure of the decently dysfunctional forensic maestro and his conflicted side-kick. Patrick Dawson as Inspector Paquet  Kathy Rose O’Brien as Amelie Gentner  Aileen Mythen was Charlotte,the Inspector’s daughter, Deirdre Monaghan as Ina Denner  Jennifer O’Dea was Saskia Eisenbeiss Michael J. Forde plays Julius Lanz  Peter Hanly was Bernd Wohlers Sound supervision was by Mark McGrath. RTÉ Radio: Drama On One Produced by Aidan Mathews. 1st TX Sunday 17th May 2015

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.