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Pamela Miles

Jane Slavin

Amaka Okafor

Chris Pavlo

Stephen Boxer

Michael Elwyn

Paul Panting

Petros Markaris

Michael Butt

Drama on 4: The Final Reckoning: Episode 1

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Episode 1

The Final Reckoning

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Final Reckoning, Episode 1

Someone is killing Athens’ wealthiest tax evaders. Inspector Jaritos has to find out why.

4 Extra Debut. For Inspector Jaritos, finding a serial killer of wealthy tax-evaders becomes more than just professional. Stars Philip Jackson.

Greece, 2008: just prior to the elections that will bring Tsipris to power. 

This is a cleverly disguised police procedural which takes us beneath the headlines and exposes a country in moral as well as financial crisis. 

It begins with the quadruple suicide of four elderly women, friends who can longer see how to survive in a country where poverty is an arm of government policy. But somehow their death precipitates an outpouring of public anger. This soon finds expression when some of Athens’ wealthiest citizens start turning up dead, causing a dilemma for the Police and in particular, Superintendent Kosta Jaritos.

Jaritos was once in the Military Police, the strong arm of the hated dictatorship of The Generals who ruled Greece as recently as the 1970’s. As a young officer, he did things he was ordered to and of which he is now far from proud. The guilt he feels about a man called Merenditis who died while in his custody just won’t go away and he knows in his heart that this new wave of murders is somehow linked to the crimes of the past – the crimes he himself committed.

Written by Petros Markaris - one of the country’s most popular writers.

Kosta Jaritos ...... Philip Jackson
Adriani ...... Pamela Miles
Katerina ...... Jane Slavin
Detective Kula	...... Amaka Okafor
Detective  Vlas ...... Chris Pavlo
Superintendent Guikas ...... Stephen Boxer
Zisis ...... Michael Elwyn
Katsumbelos ...... Paul Panting

Dramatised in two parts by Michael Butt.

A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2016.

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To many Greeks' delight, a serial killer is murdering Athens's wealthiest tax evaders

By Petros Markaris. To many Greeks' delight, a serial killer is murdering Athens's wealthiest tax evaders. Inspector Jaritos investigates

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