form y separately published work icon Return of a Hero single work   radio play   thriller   - 90min.
Adaptation of Return of a Hero Robin Estridge , 1950 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1955... 1955 Return of a Hero
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

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.

Production Details

  • 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.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ,
      1955 .
      Extent: 90min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Saturday Night Theatre United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1943-1998 6430225 1943 series - publisher radio play

      A BBC radio anthology series broadcasting (usually) ninety-minute radio plays on Saturday nights: the plays were usually genre focused (crime, mysteries, or comedies) and included original works and adaptations of stage plays and novels.

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