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Saturday Drama

Payback

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

6th October 1973. Golda Meir has become Prime Minister of Israel in her seventies. Syrian and Egyptian troops are massing on Israel's borders, but despite eleven warnings of impending war in the past month, the Israeli cabinet have not called up the reserve. In Florida, Richard Nixon awaits the final verdict of the Washington Appeal court on his objections to surrendering the Watergate Tapes. In New York, Henry Kissinger is about to be woken at his room in the Waldorf Astoria, with news of a new Middle East War. Jonathan Myerson's drama investigates how domestic and international politics were about to combine, to change the Middle East forever.

Producer/Director Jonquil Panting. Show less

Contributors

Henry Kissinger:
Henry Goodman
Richard Nixon:
Peter Marinker
Golda Meir:
Sara Kestelman
Simcha Dinitz:
Kerry Shale
Al Haig:
Kerry Shale
Anatoly Dobrynin:
Ewan Bailey
James Schelsinger:
Sam Dale
Jacob Javits:
Sean Baker

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