Helen Chambers
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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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Well, Josef Roth is definitely the better writer.
I think there's no dispute.
Well, I don't know.
You might want to dispute with me.
Yes, it came out just before the Hitler Putsch, and it's a novel about...
The Beer Hall Pudge, that's right.
When Hitler was put in prison and they actually finished publishing the last part of it in the newspaper days before that happened.
And in Roth's novel, there's a terrorist attempt planned so that he saw very clearly what was going on from a very early time.
And I think it's looked to by students of German as a kind of set text because it's got all this history in.
But actually he wrote a...
a far better novel in 1937 called Weights and Measures in English, which picks up a lot of the characters from Radetzky Marsh and indeed Mendelsinger from here pops up in it as well.
And it's a story about a move from west to east and an inspector of Weights and Measures, an honest man,
who's been forced to leave the army and get out of his uniform by his wife, and he's lost when he gets out of his uniform.
And he has a kind of slide into...
Well, maybe it's sin and maybe it's grace.
It's a bit hard to tell.
But it's a beautiful novel that picks up a lot of his other themes and evokes the landscape back in the East again.
And we haven't mentioned the larks in the sky and the frogs in the swamps.
And the crickets chirping, but he opens up this huge space that's full of life and full of animals and human beings responding to them.
But I would recommend Weights and Measures as a better composed novel than The Emperor's Tomb, which is historically perhaps more interesting.
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