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Yossarian takes direct action to avoid the next bombing mission.

Faced with a bombing raid to Bologna, Yossarian takes direct action to avoid it. Read by Stuart Milligan.

Captain Yossarian is in hospital, following a disastrous mission. 

Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions to be flown by the men, but Yossarian takes direct action to avoid the next bombing raid.

Joseph Heller’s iconoclastic 1961 novel satirising the insanity of war.

Abridged by Robin Brooks.

Read by Stuart Milligan.

Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011.

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