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The Same River Twice

1. The Return

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for 9 months

A man named Johnny Maxen walks through Gare du Nord station in Paris.

He's reluctantly returning to a life he thought he'd abandoned forever back in Scotland...

Where is his estranged wife who's mysteriously disappeared?

Starring Gordon Jackson.

Edward Boyd's thriller serial in eight parts.

Johnny Maxen ...... Gordon Jackson
Helen Duncan ...... Lennox Milne
Bill Ferguson ...... Victor Carin
Rachel Scott ...... Mary Riggans
Torquil ...... James Crampsey
Operator ...... John Toye

Producer: Eddie Fraser

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1966. Show less

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