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The Wooden Horse

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The famous wartime escape story by ERIC WILLIAMS abridged for radio in ten instalments by NAN MACDONALD Reader John Bennett
' Crash'. Bang! Gerdoyng! ! The listener is precipitated into the daily life of a German prison camp during the Second World War — a camp for British officers, with its ' goons and ' ferrets,' its irritations and discomforts, its humour and ingenious improvisations, its constant preoccupation with plans for escape.
Although Eric Williams calls himself ' Peter Howard ' and gives fictitious names also to his fellow-prisoners, this is a true story.
1: Stalag-Luft III
Producer TREVOR HILL (from Manchester)
(First broadcast in 1969)

Contributors

Story By:
Eric Williams
Reader:
John Bennett
Unknown:
Eric Williams
Unknown:
Peter Howard
Source: Radio Times

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