Foreign Bodies: The Bethlehem Murders

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Vincent Ebrahim

Nabil Elouhabi

Zubin Varla

Sirine Saba

Selva Resalingham

Philip Arditti

Carlos Chahine

Amir El-Masry

Mary Peate

Matt Rees

Jennifer Howarth

The Bethlehem Murders

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Palestinian crime drama. Schoolteacher Omar Yussef tries to clear a student of murder.

4 Extra Debut. Schoolteacher Omar Yussef tries to clear a student falsely accused of murder in his hometown. Starring Peter Polycarpou.

Schoolteacher Omar Yussef turns amateur sleuth in this crime fiction set in Palestine.

Yussef tries to save the life of his former student George Saba, a Christian recently returned to his home town of Bethlehem, who has fallen foul of a Palestinian militia group.

In doing so, Yussef uncovers a world of corruption, cynicism and fear which makes him regret the passing of a time when Christians and Muslims lived peacefully side by side.

Matt Rees has turned his observations from working as Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief into a set of Palestine-based murder mysteries. 

Dramatised by Jennifer Howarth.

Omar Yussef ...... Peter Polycarpou 
Habib Saba / Marwan Natsha ...... Vincent Ebrahim 
Khamis Zeydan ...... Nabil Elouahabi  
George Saba ...... Zubin Varla 
Dima Rahman ...... Sirine Saba  
Abdel Rahman / Jihad Awdeh ...... Selva Rasalingam 
Hussein Tamari ...... Philip Arditti 
Abu Jeriez ...... Carlos Chahine 
Ramiz ...... Amir El-Masry
 
Director: Mary Peate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.

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