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Saturday Drama: Beat the Dog in His Own Kennel

Beat the Dog in His Own Kennel

21/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, Beat the Dog in His Own Kennel

By Gary Brown. A market trader becomes mixed up in a post-war terrorist plot.

Fast-moving thriller by Gary Brown, set soon after the Second World War and based on real events as the Jewish underground plan to assassinate foreign secretary Ernest Bevin.

By Gary Brown

In recently released secret documents it was revealed there was a plot initiated in the Middle East to kill the British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin just after the Second World War. In this fictionalised account, East End market trader Harry becomes caught up in these events and quickly finds himself out of his depth as he comes under the spell of a mysterious visitor from Palestine.

Harry - Jonathan Tafler
Dov - Richard Katz
Thompson - Robert Lister
Sarah - Amy Shindler
Joey - Dan Crow
Avi - Stephen Greif
Len - Ben Crowe

Director - Peter Leslie Wild.

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