Nazi Germany has won the war. It is 1964, a week before Hitler's seventy-fifth birthday. Anton Lesser stars as the Berlin detective called to investigate the suspicious death of a retired one-legged civil servant in John Scott Dryden’s thrilling audio dramatisation for BBC Radio 4 of the best-selling novel by Robert Harris.
Starring Anton Lesser, Angeline Ball, Peter Ellis, Stratford Johns, Ian Gelder, Patrick Godfrey, Eleanor Bron & Michael Byrne.
Music by Sacha Puttnam; Written, Edited, Produced & Directed by John Scott Dryden.
“I’ve rarely heard a more masterly opening…”
- Anne Karpf, Guardian
“Riveting adaptation of Robert Harris’s best-selling novel. The drama is compelling from its opening sequence…”
- Peter Barnard, The Times
“…a brilliant radio production by John Dryden….Superb radio…”
- Nigel Andrews, Daily Mail
“An excellent dramatisation of Robert Harris’s mega-selling virtual history thriller.”
- Independent
“…fabulously underplayed performances from Anton Lesser and a cast that included Stratford Johns, Eleanor Bron and Ned Sherrin.”
- Guardian