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The Saturday Play: The Ipcress File

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Mike Walker's taut radio dramatisation of Len Deighton's gripping Cold War thriller rediscovers the novel and its unnamed and defiantly non-Establishment narrator, whose new job in the intelligence service ensnares him in a plot to brainwash scientists and trade them across the Iron Curtain.

Contributors

Author:
Len Deighton
Dramatised by:
Mike Walker
Director:
Toby Swift
The Agent:
Ian Hart
Ross:
James Laurenson
Dalby:
Jonathan Coy
Embassy official:
Declan Wilson
Jean:
Fenella Woolgar
Jay:
Peter Marinker
Chico:
Jamie Bamber
Skip:
Kerry Shale
Keightley:
Adam Tedder
Alice:
Rachel Atkins
Battersby:
John Sharian
Adem:
Raad Rawi
Source: Radio Times

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