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Faust by Martin Jenkins and Jonathan Holloway

A hilarious reworking of the German legend about a man who sells his soul to the devil, adapted by Martin Jenkins and dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.

Cast:
Mephistopheles ...... Mark Gatiss
Faustus ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Wagner ...... Thom Tuck
A Devil ...... Paul Mundell
Martha ...... Pippa Haywood
Gretchen ...... Jasmine Hyde
Valentin ...... Paul Mundell

See the Mark Gatiss who plays Mephistopheles, is it the same geezer who writes those Lucifer Box novels I wonder.
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August 2009 and another version:

Doctor Faustus - By Christopher Marlowe - BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama

The classic play written in 1604 about a man who defies the authority of God by selling his soul to the Devil in return for 24 years of knowledge and power on Earth.

Blurb: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story (Faustus is Latin for Faust), in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level, this play shows the decay of a person who chooses material gains (by commanding the devils to suit his desires) over spiritual belief and in doing so, loses his soul. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play.

"No Elizabethan play outside the Shakespeare canon has raised more controversy than Doctor Faustus. There is no agreement concerning the nature of the text and the date of composition...and the centrality of the Faust legend in the history of the Western world precludes any definitive agreement on the interpretation of the play...." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trag... )

One episode of approximately 90 minutes in high quality MP3.

With:
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Faustus....Paterson Joseph
Mephistopheles....Ray Fearon
Wagner....Toby Jones
Evil Angel....Janet McTeer
Good Angel/Duchess....Tanya Moodie
Lucifer....Julian Bleach
Old Man....David Bradley
Robin....Nicholas Burns
Rafe....Iain Robertson
Valdes/Pope....David Bamber
Cornelius....Paul Bazely
Emperor....Anton Lesser
Scholar/Horse-Courser....John Lloyd Fillingham
Scholar/Knight....Don Gilet
Scholar/Duke....Derek Riddell

Original music composed by Olly Fox.