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The Zone

Episode 1

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for 5 months

Turner finds himself in the grasp of the criminal elite who control The Zone...and the trade in vital body parts.

Starring Ben Crowe.

Trevor Preston's two-part sci-fi crime thriller is set in a world beyond the law.

Turner ...... Ben Crowe
Cage ...... Stephen Greif
Hayden ...... Michael Bertenshaw
AV ...... Elaine Claxton
Ms Iceton ...... Jaimi Barbakoff
Girl ...... Georgie Fuller

Other parts played by:

Clive Hayward
David Cann
Matthew Watson
Wilf Scolding

Trevor Preston trained at the Royal College of Art before embarking on a career in TV. He wrote for many of the best dramas of the 1970s and 80s, including Ace of Wands, Callan, The Sweeney, Minder, Out and Fox, for which he won a BAFTA in 1981.

His film work includes Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire and the Mike Hodges directed I'll Sleep When I'm Dead with Clive Owen.

Trevor has written three radio plays, the first of which, Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood, was shortlisted for the Imison Award and a Mental Health in the Media Award in 2009.

Director: Toby Swift.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2014. Show less

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