The Memorandum - Vaclav Havel - 1966 BBC Audio Drama torrent

THE MEMORANDUM - Vaclav Havel - 1966 BBC Audio Drama

A 1966 BBC dramatisation of Vaclav Havel's black comedy that parodies bureaucracy and conformity. Stars Hugh Burden and Donald Pleasance.

A bureau director receives an incomprehensible memo written in “Ptydepe”, a new language invented by the government to ensure terms are so precisely defined that documents are error-free. In pursuit of an official translation of the memo, the director runs into a series of crises that spiral further and further into absurdity.

'The Memorandum' uses ironic humour to incisive effect in a brilliantly sharp satire of authoritarian bureaucracies and their word games.

(90 mins)