Helen Chambers

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180 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Jun

Helen Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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In Our Time · Joseph Roth · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

And young Carl Joseph, the third one along, he's a 16-year-old who's seduced by the local sergeant's wife, the beautiful Frau Slama.

And she unbuttons his uniform and he's sitting there thinking, don't think there's anything at the cadet school that told me what to do in this situation.

So there are things like that happen.

And the emperor is indeed in it.

And he kind of misses the battles in a way because he's an old soldier.

So he thinks, I'll have some manoeuvres out in the eastern borderlands.

And he draws them all up.

And he's sitting there on his horse.

And everybody's gaping because there's a drip on the end of his nose.

So Rote's showing you the frailty of this old man and that he doesn't know what's going on.

And he's a human being.

And that's part of, I think, Rote's great art, that he shows you human beings.

He takes you close to their noses, their nostrils, their ears, their eyes, the back of their mouth.

I mean, there's a great concrete precision about these things.

Well, I mean, Roche himself said, I'm looking back, but not uncritically.

So it's kind of nostalgic because he misses this multinational land.

Well, he would like it not to have been thus, but he knew it was thus.

And he does show the decadence of the frivolity and what the terrible officers get up to.

I mean, fiddling with, as Rowan Burns has got nothing on Joseph Road.

So, yeah.

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