A new play for television by Ray Rigby
Based on a story by L.H. Wynne
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[Photo caption] Edwina Rendell (Peggy), Alun Owen (Tom), Marie Burke (Mum); Julian Somers (Dad), and Sean Lynch (Fred); for them the problems are both moral and legal when it comes to protecting...

"The Lost Men"
A new play for television by Ray Rigby

In the past few years there have been a number of instances of refugees from Europe seeking political asylum in Great Britain. The 'lost men' of tonight's play are two such people - Kaufman and Lipinski - who have fled from persecution, and without permits, passports, or any kind of authority, find themselves in London's dockland, ready to make an undercover journey to Manchester, where they believe they will find friends to help them. But they need friends in London, too: friends and accomplices who are prepared to risk their own safety to help them. For Kaufman and Lipinski have few personal assets left. They can scarcely speak any English, and they are as bewildered by the future they are seeking as they are afraid of the past they have left. But in London's East End, there is always to be found an innate sympathy for the 'hunted,' and it is from this that the drama, excitement and human quality of tonight's play is drawn.

(Next week: "The Land of Promise" by Somerset Maugham)