The Doomed Oasis

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Hammond Innes - The Doomed Oasis

3. Escape to Saraifa

The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes

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A lawyer on the trail of a missing client in Arabia is taken to an oasis.

On the trail of his missing client in Arabia, English lawyer George Grant is taken to an oasis. Stars Tim Munro.

A flight into the desert - and a first encounter with a living legend.

Starring Tim Munro.

Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel.

Adapted by Rene Basilico.

George Grant ....... Tim Munro
Colonel Whittaker ....... Bernard Horsfall
Sheikh Makhmud ....... Farouk El-Demerdash
Prince Khalid ....... Raad Rawi
Otto Smith ....... George Roubicek
Sir Philip Gorde ....... Garard Green
Jack Entwistle ....... Geoffrey Hinsliff
Sheikh's Messenger ....... Ali Refaie 
Palace Guard ....... Mohammad Sultan

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984.

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Adaptation of the Arabian adventure novel by Hammond Innes.

Adaptation of the novel by Hammond Innes. Two men fight to save an oasis from the encroaching sands of the Empty Quarter, and from the friction between them

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