Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

3. Direct Action

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 28^th Sep 2011, 22:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 4^th May 2023, 02:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Captain Yossarian is in hospital, following a disastrous mission.

Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions to be flown by the men, but Yossarian takes direct action to avoid the next bombing raid.

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