The Secret Guests (Omnibus)

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The Secret Guests (Omnibus): Episode 2

The Secret Guests

Episode 2

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The IRA close in on the true identities of the young guests, the two princesses.

As the IRA close in on the true identities of the guests, an accident befalls one of the princesses. Read by Sorcha Cusack.

As the IRA close in on the true identities of the young guests, an accident befalls one of the princesses.

BW Black's imagined historical adventure and enthralling mystery concluded by Sorcha Cusack. 

In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rural estate in neutral Ireland. However Clonmillis Hall may prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London…

Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 officer charged with the princesses’ safety. However, with a contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more treacherous than expected. But is the real threat from outside, or from within Clonmillis Hall itself?

Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes

BW Black is the pen name of acclaimed Irish author John Banville. He is the author of several novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature. He has published a number of crime novels, most featuring Quirke (an Irish pathologist based in Dublin) which were adapted into a TV series starring Gabriel Byrne.

Abridger, Neville Teller

Producer, Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

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