by Pierre Boulle translated and adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
with Valerie Hanson, Jeffrey Segal, Clive Morton, Noel Johnson
William Conrad has escaped from Nazi Germany and is putting his literary talent at the disposal of the British Government. But there are some who doubt whether he is the patriot he appears to be.
(Broadcast on Dec. 29, 1962)
Pierre Boulle served with the Free French forces in Indo-China, was captured by the Japanese, escaped, and served with the British in India. He is the author of the novel The Bridge Over the River Kwai. William Conrad, written in 1950, was his first novel.