A Confirmed Bachelor by Arthur Schnitzler

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As middle-aged spa doctor Emil Graesler comes to terms with his sister's suicide, he meets the pure spirited Sabine Schleheim and imagines she could make the perfect wife. But just as he is decided where to take the relationship, a chance encounter with a coquettish shop girl pushes his life in a different direction altogether. An engaging portrait of a self-obsessed man in Middle European Society at the turn of the 20th century, by the writer of La Ronde and the story which inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut. Arthur Schnitzle's novella originally published in German in 1917 . Starring Keith Drinkel. Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal. Emil Graesler ..... Keith Drinkel Sabine Schleheim .... Cathy Sara Katharina Rebner .... Jo Rafferty Frau Sommer .... Oona Beeson Bohlinger .... Robert Lister Frau Grumer .... Sunny Ormonde Frau Schleheim .... Marian Kemmer Karl Schleheim .... Richard da Costa Fanny Sommer .... Elizabeth Wofford Director: Peter Leslie Wild First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000.