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  • Published: 17 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9781910281185
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 1 hr 29 min
  • Narrators: Robert Lonsdale, Simon Trinder, Gunnar Cauthary, Lloyd Thomas, Joseph Arkley, Stephen Critchlow, Malcolm Tierney, Stuart McLoughlin, Dan Starkey, Luke Walker
  • RRP: $17.99

All Quiet on the Western Front





A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time.

A full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time.

First published as a novel in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young German soldiers who are enduring, and then coming to terms with, the realities of the First World War.

At the age of 19, following the outbreak of the First World War, Paul Bäumer enlists in the German Army. He is deployed to the Western Front, where the experience of life and death in the trenches has an enormous effect on him. He begins to feel disconnected from his past life: his family, his love of poetry, and his feelings. As the war progresses, Paul becomes increasingly lost in battle.

Haunting yet comic, lyrical yet desperate, the novel became a bestseller on its original publication. It inspired an Oscar-winning film of the same name, and has been adapted for television and stage. This powerful radio dramatisation stars Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer, with a supporting cast including Simon Trinder, Stephen Critchlow, Carolyn Pickles and Malcolm Tierney.

  • Published: 17 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9781910281185
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 1 hr 29 min
  • Narrators: Robert Lonsdale, Simon Trinder, Gunnar Cauthary, Lloyd Thomas, Joseph Arkley, Stephen Critchlow, Malcolm Tierney, Stuart McLoughlin, Dan Starkey, Luke Walker
  • RRP: $17.99

About the author

Erich Maria Remarque

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE was born in Germany in 1898 and drafted into the German army during World War I. His novel All Quiet on the Western Front was published in 1928 and was an instant best seller. When the Nazis came to power, Remarque left Germany for Switzerland; he lost his German citizenship, his books were burned, and his films banned. He went to the United States in 1938 and became a citizen in 1947. He later lived in Switzerland with his second wife, the actress Paulette Goddard. He died in September 1970.

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