Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five

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Drama on 3: Slaughterhouse-Five Sun 20th Sep 2009, 20:00 on BBC Radio 3 An adaptation, dramatised by Dave Sheasby, of Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war novel, which tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, prisoner of war, optometrist and time-traveller. Producer/Director David Hunter   Narrator:……John Guerassio Billy Pilgrim:….Andrew Scott Bernard:…..Nathan Osgood Mary:…..Joanne McQuinn Montana:…..Annabelle Dowler Barbara:…..Sarah Goldberg Valencia:…….Madeleine Potter Roland Weary:…..Simon Lee Philips Mother:…..Liza Ross Eliot Rosewater:……Kerry Shale Howard J Campbell Jr:…..Stephen Hogan Bertram Rumfoofd:……Peter Marinker English Offker:……Michael Mears Cinderella:……Philip Fox Paul Lazarro:…..Gunnar Cauthery Soldiers:…..Orlando James Soldiers:…….Michael Shelford In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses postmodernism in order to challenge modernist ideas. This novel is oftentimes referred to as an “anti-war book”

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