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BBC Drama ThrillerWritten by James Follett
Read by John Challis, Caroline John, James Beattie
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Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization
“This is the first escape from one of our maximum security sanatoriums. And there might be another…. Are all the prisoners housed in this block?”
“We prefer to call them patients.”
James Follett’s political thriller explores dissention and danger in a repressive state in the Eastern Bloc.
Starring James Beattie as Jan Valery, Vernon Joyner as Suskin, Manning Wilson as the Governor, Francis de Wolff as Nero, Caroline John as Anna, Cyril Shaps as Danski, Brian Haines as Suskin’s Chief, Rosayln Slater as Zoe and John Challis as the Interrogator.
Producer: Margaret Hall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1973.