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Episode 1: Floater

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Anton Lesser stars as Kriminalpolizei detective Xavier March.

A chilling drama set in an imaginary Hitler-led post-war Germany. Anton Lesser stars as Kriminalpolizei detective Xavier March. 


Hitler has won the war...and the totalitarian Nazi regime in Germany has a terrible secret it needs to hide at all costs. 

Anton Lesser stars as Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei called to investigate a suspicious death.

Best-selling thriller by Robert Harris - dramatised in five-parts by John Dryden. 

Xavier March    ......    Anton Lesser
Max Jaeger    ......    Peter Ellis 
Rudi    ......    Andrew Sachs
Krause    ......    Graham Padden
Jost    ......    Robert Portal
Pili    ......    Thomas Copeland
Frau Trinkl    ......    Amanda Walker
Globus    ......    Michael Byrne
Fiebes    ......    Ian Gelder
Newsreader    ......    Trevor Nichols
Newsreader    ......    Alice Arnold
Chat Show Host    ......    Ned Sherrin

Author Robert Harris is a former BBC reporter and newspaper journalist.

Producer: John Dryden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.

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Chilling novel set in a dystopian Hitler-led post-war Germany

Adaptation of the English author's chilling novel set in a dystopian Hitler-led post-war Germany

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