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Saturday-Night Theatre

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

It's a Battlefield by GRAHAM GREENE dramatised for radio by GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS
The setting is London in the 1930s
Jim Drover , a Communist bus-driver, has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman in a political riot, because he thought the policeman was going to strike his wife.
The title refers to the manv battles fought to save the convicted man.
Produced and directed by SHAUN MACLOUGIILIN
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Unknown:
Geoffrey M. Matthews
Unknown:
Jim Drover
Directed By:
Shaun MacLougiilin
the Assistant Commissioner:
Gerald Cross
Harry Conder:
Clive Swift
Conrad Drover:
John Rime
Milly Drover:
Carole Boyd
Caroline Bury:
Kathleen Helme
Jules Briton:
Michael Deacon
Kay Rimmer:
Elizabeth Proud
Philip Surrogate:
William Fox
Patmore:
Peter Woodthorpe
Mrs Coney:
Shirley Dixon
The Warder:
David Graham
The Chaplain:
David Neal
Mr Bernay:
Haydn Jones
Jim Drover:
Peter Craze
PC Coney:
Patrick Barr
Private Secretary:
Nigel Anthony
Source: Radio Times

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