Jaws by Peter Benchley

3. 'Let's get the goddamn beached closed.'

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 22^nd Aug 2018, 22:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 28^th Feb 2024, 21:30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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It's high summer on Cape Cod's Amity Island, and now two people have been killed just off the coast.

Chief Brody is convinced the killer is a shark, and now all he has to do is work out how he's going to catch it...

Will it ever be safe to go back into the water?

Peter Benchley's classic 1974 novel became one of the most terrifying movies of all time.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton.

Read by Henry Goodman.

Producer: Justine Willett

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