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Len Deighton - XPD: 1. A Small Killing in Hollywood

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1. A Small Killing in Hollywood

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Did Churchill meet Hitler in 1940? Britain's ‘SIS’ is tasked to find out....

Did Churchill meet Hitler in 1940? Can the British Secret Intelligence Service - SIS - discover the truth? Stars Trevor Nichols. From 1985.

The Prime Minister discovers a film is set to be made about the "Kaiseroda" mine -  Hitler's secret cave of treasures during the Second World War.

So did Winston Churchill meet Hitler in 1940? 

Can the SIS (Britain's Secret Intelligence Service) uncover the truth?

The title of Len Deighton’s riveting thriller XPD stands for Expedient Demise.  

An alleged secret meeting between Churchill and Hitler in 1940 is at the centre of the tangled plot; Whitehall, the Kremlin and the CIA - plus a ruthless secret group - we are all somewhat anxious of that historical conference. Will the so-called Hitler Minutes prove Churchill a traitor?

Deighton described his book as "faction", a blend of fact and fiction "so skilful you can't see the join". 

Dramatised in 8-parts by Michael Bakewell.

Boyd Stuart    ......    Trevor Nichols
Sydney Ryden    ......    David Garth
Charles Stein    ......    Bruce Boa
Max Breslow    ......    Bernard Hepton
Willi Kleiber    ......    Clifford Rose
Hitler Minutes    ......    Colin Starkey
Prime Minister    ......    Bernard Brown
Jennifer    ......    Jenny Funnell
Kitty    ......    Melinda Walker
MacIver    ......    Don Fellows
Billy Stein    ......    Ian Tyler

Director:  Peter King

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1985.

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