Author: Hannelore Hippe
Genre: Radio play, Feature
Production: Deutschlandfunk 2012
Recording date: May 2012
Music: Frieder Butzmann
Length: 96'22
Director: Götz Naleppa
Assistant Director: Rolf Meyer
Sound and technology: Ernst Hartmann, Anne Bartel

Contributors:
Samuel Pepys: Matthias Matschke
Ngaire Bushell: Frauke Poolmann
Claire Tomalin: Claudia Mischke

Content:
Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703) is famous for the diaries he wrote as a young man from 1660 to 1669. They contain very private, erotic and political information and are the best testimony to London during the political upheaval of the mid-17th century, the London of the plague and the Great Fire. But they also provide unrivalled insights into the everyday life of a rising citizen. The diaries are commented on by Pepys' biographer Claire Tomalin and the chairman of the Samuel Pepys Club, Nagaire Bushell. Frieder Butzmann's music therefore contains both the baroque and contemporary layers.