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The Saturday Play: The Officers' Ward

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Dramatised by Mike Walker from the novel by Marc Dugain.

Blown up on the Western Front, Adrien Fournier wakes up in the officers' ward with a dawning awareness that some traumatic incident has shattered his life. Based on the true account of the author's grandfather, this story makes a pilgrimage to the remotest outposts of human experience where heroism, friendship, pity and humour take unexpected new forms.

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Mike Walker
Novel By:
Marc Dugain
Director:
John Taylor
Adrien:
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Clemence:
Megan Dodds
Pierre:
Alan Cox
Henri:
Nicholas Rowe
Nurse:
Poppy Miller
Marguerite:
Maxine Peake
Doctor:
Jonathan Keeble
M Grichard:
Don McCorkindale

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