Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory

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Stephen Rea

Hugo Speer

Danny Sapani

James Lailey

Brian Protheroe

Milo Parker

Nicola Ferguson

Sean Baker

Adie Allen

Elizabeth Bennett

Nick Underwood

Kirsty Oswald

Jason Barnett

Amy Jayne

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Nick Warburton

Emma Harding

Drama on 4: Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory: 2. The Last Priest

Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory

2. The Last Priest

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Stephen Rea is the Whisky Priest in Graham Greene's classic, dramatised by Nick Warburton.

Mexico, 1930s: The Lieutenant is determined to track down the last priest in the state - the whisky priest. Stars Hugo Speer.

Tabasco, Mexico in the 1930s. The last priest is on the run from the anti-Catholic authorities, who put any priests they find before the firing squad. 

The Lieutenant remains determined to track down the whisky priest...  

Stephen Rea and Hugo Speer star in the conclusion of Graham Greene's masterpiece. 

The Whisky Priest.....Stephen Rea 
The Lieutenant.....Hugo Speer 
The Narrator.....Danny Sapani 
Tench.....James Lailey 
The Chief of Police.....Brian Protheroe 
Luis.....Milo Parker 
Luis' mother.....Nicola Ferguson 
Padre José/ Beggar.....Sean Baker 
Maria/ José's Wife.....Adie Allen 
Grandmother.....Elizabeth Bennett 
Captain Fellows/ The Governor's Cousin.....Nick Underwood 
Coral.....Kirsty Oswald 
The Mestizo.....Jason Barnett 
Brigitta.....Amy Jayne 

Dramatised by Nick Warburton. 

Director: Emma Harding.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016.

Drama on 4: Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory

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Nick Warburton adapts Graham Greene's thriller set in Mexico in the 1930s.

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