The Great Pursuit

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The Great Pursuit: 2. Blow Ups

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2. Blow Ups

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Great Pursuit, 2. Blow Ups

Can literary agent Frederik Frensic keep up the deception behind the steamy bestseller?

Can literary agents Frensic and Futtle keep the pretend author, of the steamy bestseller, on board? Stars Mark Heap. From 2005.

"It's the most depraved...obscene novel I've ever read...it'll make millions."  

 $20,000,000 in fact, provided literary agent Frederick Frensic can ensure Peter Piper keeps pretending to have written the book - while the real author remains anonymous...    

Tom Sharpe's anarchic satire of the world of publishing.

Dramatised by Ryan Craig.

Frederick Frensic .... Mark Heap
Peter Piper ..... Adam Godley 
Sonia Futtle .... Laurel Lefkow
Hutchmeyer .... John Guerrasio
Baby Hutchmeyer .... Sandra Dickinson
Geoffrey Corkadale .... Nicholas Boulton
Macmordie/Reporter .... Kerry Shale
Marianna Moore .... Alex Tregear

Director: Toby Swift

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005.

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Mark Heap stars as literary agent Frederick Frensic in Tom Sharpe's anarchic satire.

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