1st Broadcast 15th September 1977 BBC Radio 4
Writer
James Follett
Directed by
Chris Venning
Synopsis
September 1940.
The month during the Battle of Britain
when Goering's Luftwaffe lost a thousand aircraft against an RAF loss of 335
fighters Two German Luftwaffe officers taken prisoner that month were later
to cost their captors another aircraft and seriously disrupt the RAF's training
of new aircrews in what was to become the most daring but least publicised escapes
of the war.
Or
In March 1945, no fewer than 70 prisoners
of war escaped through a tunnel from the Island Farm camp in South Wales. Sergeant
Bill May was put in charge of the biggest Manhunt ever mounted in Britain. "It
struck me at once that there as something very Professional about it" he
said 'they had maps perfectly drawn, of the Welsh and Irish coasts"
Cast
| Supt Bill May | Robert Lang |
| Reising Michaels | Tudor Barne |
| Klein | Neville Jason |
| Memmers | David Ashford |
| Brandt | Alaric Cotter |
| Kaumann | Peter Wickham |
| Lt-Col Darling | Anthony Newlands |
| Jones | Henry Knowles |
| With the Voices Of | |
| Character Name Not Known | Joan Matheson |
| Character Name Not Known | Heather Bell |
| Character Name Not Known | Sion Probert |
| Character Name Not Known | John Green |
| Character Name Not Known | Christopher Jenkinson |
| Character Name Not Known | Carl Forgione |
| Character Name Not Known | Brian Hewlett |
James Follett Comments
None so far.
Running Time
45 Minutes
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