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The Great Pursuit

2. Blow Ups

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for years

"It's the most depraved...obscene novel I've ever read...it'll make millions."

$20,000,000 in fact, provided literary agent Frederick Frensic can ensure Peter Piper keeps pretending to have written the book - while the real author remains anonymous...

Tom Sharpe's anarchic satire of the world of publishing.

Dramatised by Ryan Craig.

Frederick Frensic .... Mark Heap
Peter Piper ..... Adam Godley
Sonia Futtle .... Laurel Lefkow
Hutchmeyer .... John Guerrasio
Baby Hutchmeyer .... Sandra Dickinson
Geoffrey Corkadale .... Nicholas Boulton
Macmordie/Reporter .... Kerry Shale
Marianna Moore .... Alex Tregear

Director: Toby Swift

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005. Show less

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