Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum - Audio Drama - BBC Radio 7 2 x 55 Minute Episodes - 128Kbps - Mp3 - Slimoo The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's Danziger Trilogie (Danzig Trilogy). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum /> In 1996 a radio dramatisation starring Phil Daniels was broadcast by BBC Radio 4. Adapted by Mike Walker, it won the British Writers Guild award for best dramatisation. 1: Germany, 1930. Hitler rises to power. Three-year-old Oskar decides to stop growing and talking. Instead, he plays his tin drum through the dark years of Nazism. 2: The Second World War is raging. Oskar, on the run, discovers sex, jazz and the black market. Soon his mad drumming will make him a star. Cast: Dramatised by Mike Walker Phil Daniels as Oskar Kenneth Cranham as Matzerath Lesley Manville Stephen Critchlow David Collins Director Peter Kavanagh Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum - 01 of 02 Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum - 02 of 02 Audio Format : MP3 Duration Approx : 28mn 0s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Resolution : 16 bits