As a life-long fan of Italo Calvino’s writing, I was very excited to discover this marvelous BBC audio adaptation of his post-modern classic If on a winter’s night a traveler .
Relax. Concentrate. Turn that phone off. Dispel every other thought. In fact let the world around you fade. You are about to listen to a radio adaptation of Italo Calvino’s iconic masterpiece If on a winter’s night a traveller…. Enter a labyrinth of ingeniously inventive audio worlds as you, the listener, turn detective in your attempts to get to the heart of the story and so become embroiled in a trans-global conspiracy of rogue translators, lost languages and disintegrating publishing houses. You, yes you, the heroic listener are plunged into an epic caper of disappearance, double crosses and beautiful, authentic romance. A multitude of characters are brought to life by Toby Jones, Indira Varma and Tim Crouch in BBC Audio Drama North’s premiere of Italo Calvino’s iconic post modern novel translated by William Weaver, dramatised for radio by Tim Crouch and Toby Jones and directed by Nadia Molinari. If on a winter’s night a traveller has been recorded in front of an audience at BBC Contains Strong Language Festival at Leeds Playhouse as part of BBC’s 100 years of Radio Drama.
If on a winter’s night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore) is a story within a story about the reader trying to read a book called If on a winter’s night a traveler. Each chapter is divided into two sections. The first section of each chapter is in second person, and describes the process the reader goes through to attempt to read the next chapter of the book they are reading. The second half is the first part of a new book that the reader (“you”) finds. The second half is always about something different from the previous ones.
Travel Between The Pages 
Thanks for this! I’ll follow it up.
Great! My favorite by Calvino – which made me want to learn Italian for reading. Currently reading The Baron in the Trees – in Italian