Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

2. Yossarian's Mission

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 27^th Sep 2011, 22:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 3^rd May 2023, 02:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Captain Yossarian is in hospital, keen to be grounded after a disastrous mission.

Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions to be flown by the men.

Yossarian is determined not to fly any more missions, but keeps coming up against the unassailable logic of Catch 22.

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

Abridged by Robin Brooks.

Read by Stuart Milligan.

Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane

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