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James Follett - The Light of a Thousand Suns

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Drama: War & Disaster

20/02/2005

BBC Radio 4 Extra - James Follett - The Light of a Thousand Suns

Bizarre coincidences spark a British nuclear submarine's preparations for all-out attack.

Bizarre coincidences spark a British nuclear submarine's preparations for all-out attack. Stars Manning Wilson and John Rye. 

A bizarre chain of unforeseen coincidences sparks a 1990s British nuclear submarine to prepare to launch an all-out attack. Devastating, unpreventable, unless...
 
James Follett's thriller starring Manning Wilson as Captain Harrison.
    
Lieutenant Sinclair    ......    John Rye 
Stride    ......    Ian Thompson 
Floyd    ......    Michael Shannon
Louise Arnott    ......    Sheila Mitchell
Wallis    ......    James Hayes  
The Prime Minister    ......    Conrad Phillips  
Aitkin    ......    Sion Probert 
Master-at-Arms    ......    Nigel Graham
Fisher    ......    John Bull 
Theodore Pike    ......    Vernon Joyner
1st Rating    ......    Hugh Ross
2nd Rating    ......    Roger Gartland
Computer Operator    ......    Carole Boyd
 
Producer: Margaret Etall
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1974

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