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The War Behind the Wire

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by JAMES FOLLETT
A series of four true stories of German pows who escaped from British camps between 1940 and 1947. 1: The Ten Day Terror
A dramatisation of the mass breakout from the notorious Island Farm Camp in South Wales which led to the biggest police and army manhunt ever mounted in Britain. With and Directed by MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
James Follett
Directed By:
Margaret Etall
Supt Bill May:
Robert Lang
Reising MICHAEL:
Tudor Barnes
Klein:
Neville Jason
Memmers:
David Ashford
Brandt:
Alaric Cotter
Kaumann:
Peter Wickham
Lt-Col Darling:
Anthony Newlands
Jones:
Henry Knowles
Jones:
Joan Matheson,
Jones:
Heather Bell,
Jones:
Christopher Jenkinson,
Jones:
Siôn Probert,
Jones:
John Green,
Jones:
Carl Forgione
Jones:
Brian Hewlett
Jones:
Gerald Crossman (accordion)
Source: Radio Times

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