by Olivia Manning
Dramatised by Eric Ewens
with Anna Massey, Jack Shepherd and Tim Woodward
The Balkan Trilogy, to which this is the sequel, told of a young lecturer, Guy Pringle, and his newly-married wife, Harriet, caught in Romania during the early days of the Second World War and of their subsequent flight to and stay in Athens. As the swastika is raised over the Acropolis they are forced to flee again - to Egypt. It is two months before the battle of El Alamein.
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
(Tim Woodward is a National Theatre player)
