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Classic Serial - The Glass Bead Game

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Dramatisation by Lavinia Greenlaw of Hermann Hesse's classic 1943 novel set in a futuristic, utopian society

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Classic Serial - The Glass Bead Game - Episode 1

Joseph Knecht is singled out from an early age as one of the Castalian elite, and a promising candidate for the higher echelons of the exclusive Castilian Order.

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Classic Serial - The Glass Bead Game - Episode 2

Joseph Knecht begins to plan for the forthcoming Glass Bead Game. But as excitement mounts, his doubts about the Castalian way of life are compounded by his newly-acquired position.

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