Monday, May 7, 2012

What a journey...

I just finished listening to a dramatization of Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Freedom. After finishing it, I strongly recommend that you listen to it.
For those who don't know, a dramatization is just an audio interpretation of a story with different people doing the different character parts. In this particular one, the key points (for example, when Bonhoeffer tells his father that he wants to become a minister) are word for word reproductions of what was actually said. And that lends a whole new layer of depth and meaning to it.
Bonhoeffer was a German minister during World War II who was involved in a series of assassination attempts on Hitler's life. Unfortunately, none of these attempts succeeded, and Bonhoeffer, along with a few others, was hung for "treason" by the Nazi officials.
This particular dramatization is very well done and was originally done for a old program called Focus on the Family Radio, and is introduced and narrated by David Suche, the guy that plays Agatha Christie's Poirot. And while that alone is reason enough for listening to it, ::cough::, its quality is another reason for obtaining a copy.
I'm not sure if it is on CD or not, the one I listened to was on cassette, but it can probably be downloaded off of the internet.

P.S. I would not recommend listening to it in the dark, especially the last section or two. It can get kinda... dark. Hence the Nazis.

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