From the producers of NUREMBERG, the story of how in just thirteen years, Adolf Hitler led a fringe group with outlandish proposals and less than a hundred members to be the dominant force in German politics. It is also about the forgotten players from these early years who played crucial roles in the Nazi Party's rise to power. This new scripted podcast takes listeners into the intrigues, the personalities, the knife-edge decisions which would ultimately lead to forty million dead in the world’s greatest catastrophe.

Starring Derek Jacobi as President Hindenburg, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler and Alexander Vlahos as Joseph Goebbels, Toby Stephens, Nancy Carroll, Laura Donnelly and Juliet Stevenson as the Narrator.

Cast:
Ernst Röhm & Gregor Strasser - JOSEPH ALESSI
Emil Maurice & Rudolf Diels - OSCAR BATTERHAM
Gottfried Feder & Otto Meissner - EDWARD BENNETT
Helene Bechstein - NANCY CARROLL
King Ludwig & Franz von Papen - WILLIAM CHUBB
Dorothy Thompson - LAURA DONNELLY
Sefton Delmer - TOMIWA EDUN
Kaiser Wilhelm & Karl Alexander von Müller - NICHOLAS FARRELL
Leni Hanfstaengl & Anni Winter - MELODY GROVE
President Hindenburg - DEREK JACOBI
Putzi Hanfastaengl - COREY JOHNSON
Hermann Göring - SCOTT KARIM
Rudolf Hess - GEORGE KEMP
Else Janke & Mimi Reiter - SORCHA KENNEDY
Oskar von Hindenberg & Theodor Duesterberg- JACK LASKEY
Sinclair Lewis & Alfred Hugenberg - FORBES MASSON
Kurt Eisner & Joachim von Ribbentrop - MICHAEL MALONEY
Hermine Hoffman - LYNNE MILLER
Adolf Hitler - TOM MOTHERSDALE
Magda Goebbels - SHANAYA RAFAAT
Captain Mayr - TOBY STEPHENS
Geli Raubal - TANVI VIRMANI
Joseph Goebbels - ALEXANDER VLAHOS
General Ludendorff and Kurt von Schleicher - ANDREW WOODALL
The Narrator is JULIET STEVENSON

Sound designer – ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager – MARK SMITH
Casting Director – GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score – METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director – JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer – NICHOLAS NEWTON

A Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds