Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

1. The Censor

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 26^th Sep 2011, 22:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 2^nd May 2023, 02:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Captain Yossarian is in hospital with a pain in his liver and is given the task of censoring letters.

Keen to be grounded after a disastrous mission to Avignon, Yossarian has the unassailable circular logic of Catch 22 explained to him.

"There was only one catch and that was Catch 22."

Joseph Heller’s iconoclastic 1961 novel satirising the insanity of war.

Abridged in ten parts by Robin Brooks.

Read by Stuart Milligan.

Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. Show less