Schoolteacher Omar Yussef turns amateur sleuth in this crime fiction set in Palestine.

Yussef tries to save the life of his former student George Saba, a Christian recently returned to his home town of Bethlehem, who has fallen foul of a Palestinian militia group.

In doing so, Yussef uncovers a world of corruption, cynicism and fear which makes him regret the passing of a time when Christians and Muslims lived peacefully side by side.

Matt Rees has turned his observations from working as Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief into a set of Palestine-based murder mysteries.

Dramatised by Jennifer Howarth.

Omar Yussef ...... Peter Polycarpou
Habib Saba / Marwan Natsha ...... Vincent Ebrahim
Khamis Zeydan ...... Nabil Elouahabi
George Saba ...... Zubin Varla
Dima Rahman ...... Sirine Saba
Abdel Rahman / Jihad Awdeh ...... Selva Rasalingam
Hussein Tamari ...... Philip Arditti
Abu Jeriez ...... Carlos Chahine
Ramiz ...... Amir El-Masry

Director: Mary Peate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018. Show less