Estridge's novel, on which this radio play is based, is concerned with a man, the sole survivor of a desert mission, who is proclaimed a hero by the public, but scratches away the fame to reveal an uglier truth.
Aired on BBC Radio (Home Service Basic) on Saturday 5 February 1955.
Re-broadcast on the afternoon of Thursday 10 February 1955.
Producer: Archie Campbell.
Cast members included Hugh Burden (Captain Peter Lewis), Manning Wilson (Sergeant Wheeler), Peter Claughton (Sergeant Bourne), Edward Kelsey (Driver), Michael Turner (Second Pilot), Edward Jewesbury (Pilot), Stanley van Beers (Colonel Armstrong (War Office)), John Chandos (Sir Maurice Melluish (Foreign Office)), Allan Jeayes (Maxwell Hewitson, a journalist), Kenneth Fortescue (Simon Lewis, Peter's younger brother), Bryan Powley (Police Sergeant Adams), Rachel Gurney (Clare Lindsey, a young widow), Ann Codrington (Mrs Lewis, Peter's mother), Eric Maturin (Colonel Lewis, his father), James Thomason (First reporter), John Gabriel (Second reporter), Edward Kelsey (Third reporter), Bryan Powley (Fourth reporter), Hugh David (Fifth reporter), and Derek Birch (Major Rennie).
(Production details via Radio Times, 4 February 1955, p.34.)
