Book of the Week

Hampton Sides - Hellhound on His Trail

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 12^th Jul 2010, 09:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 27^th Mar 2018, 02:45 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Hampton Sides' compelling book sheds fresh light on the assassination of Martin Luther King and the hunt for his killer, James Earl Ray.

In this opening episode, Ray makes a dramatic escape from his penitentiary and assumes the first of many aliases.

Meanwhile, an increasingly exhausted Martin Luther King plans a bold new direction for the civil rights movement.

Read by Christian Camargo and Clarke Peters.

First published in 2010 and abridged by Viv Beeby.

Producer: Emma Harding

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Show less