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The Dark Island: Part 1

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Robert Barr
Starring Edward de Souza, Bryden Murdoch, Geoffrey Frederick

This serial in six parts is set among the remote mist-veiled islands of the Outer Hebrides. Two Intelligence Officers expose and circumvent a plot to run an escape route for defectors from Britain. The route, ending behind the Iron Curtain, involves the use of Russian trawlers plying outside territorial waters
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Barr
Producer:
Peter Titheradge
Ian McLeod:
Bryden Murdoch
Lieutenant Ritchie:
Roy Spencer
Jim Nicholson:
Edward de Souza
Major Williams:
Peter Hawkins
Brigadier:
Michael Kilgarriff
Bill Grant:
Geoffrey Frederick
Source: Radio Times

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