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Classic Serial: The 39 Steps: Episode One: The Milkman Sets out on his Travels

on BBC Radio 4 FM

John Buchan's ever-popular spy thriller, first published in 1915, is dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules.

When a man is murdered in Richard Hannay's London flat he goes on the run to
Scotland, pursued by the police and a gang of German spies intent on recovering a secret notebook that could destroy the British naval fleet.
Other parts played by members of the cast (R)

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Contributors

Author:
John Buchan
Dramatised by:
Bert Coules
Director:
Bruce Young
Hannay:
David Robb
Bullivant:
Tom Baker
Scudder:
William Hope
Hawk:
Struan Rodger
Johnners:
Phillip Joseph
Charlotte:
Tracy Wiles
Jopley:
Thomas Arnold
Chairman:
Gordon Reid
Crofter:
Kenny Blyth

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