Dürrenmatt is a master of linguistic perspective, which he has particularly developed through radio plays. In "Unternehmen Wega," the confrontation between West and East on our planet is expanded to a new potential war front: Venus. It has become a penal colony for Earth. In "Stranitzky and the National Hero," the head of state Baldur von Moeve, due to an illness from leprosy, sides with the outcasts and the defiled. One of these, Stranitzky, a war veteran who has had both legs amputated and is a former football champion, now believes his time has come. The previous victims of politics will govern—after all, governing does not require legs, but a head. The "Nocturnal Conversation" is not only a general course for contemporaries but, more specifically, a guide for Dürrenmatt readers.