Second-rate thriller writer Rollo Martins has arrived in a snow-bound postwar Vienna to meet his old school chum Harry Lime – only to find that Harry has recently been killed in a car accident.

And now the police are accusing him of racketeering. Rollo is desperate to clear his old friend’s name, and already the circumstances of Harry’s death are proving suspicious…

Samuel West reads from the classic Graham Greene novella that inspired one of the most acclaimed films of all time, starring Orson Welles.

Author: Graham Greene
Reader: Samuel West
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by Anton Karas.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. Show less