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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

5. A Plague of Yossarians

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Available for years

Colonel Cathcart faces a plague of Yossarians.

There's also an outbreak of moaning during the briefing.

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

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