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GRAHAM GREENE - STAMBOUL TRAIN (320kbs-m4a/199mb/1hr26mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 27th September 2025
Europe in the 1930s. A dangerous place to be.
As the Orient Express weaves its way through snow towards Constantinople, a motley group of people find themselves threatened by intrigue, skulduggery and murderous politics.
It is a heady cocktail of wit, adventure, mystery, interrogations, scamming, shoot-outs and sexual intrigue.
Graham Greene's tense thriller novel, first published in 1932.
Greene admitted, in 1974, that he wrote it to make a bit of money. "In Stamboul Train for the first and last time in my life I deliberately set out to write a book to please, one which with luck might be made into a film. The devil looks after his own and I succeeded in both aims."
Starring Joseph Milson and Sam Dale.
Dramatised by Jeremy Front.
Myatt .... Joseph Millson
Coral .... Abbie Andrews
Czinner .... Sam Dale
Josef .... Nicholas Murchie
Mabel .... Jane Slavin
Janet .... Isabella Inchbald
Petkovitch .... Simon Ludders
Ninitch .... Samuel James
Hartep .... Phillip Fox
Mrs Peters .... Ellie Darvil
Mr Peters .... Charlie Clements
Other parts played by:
Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Adam Fitzgerald
Gary Duncan
David Reakes
Kath Weare
Director: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017.
GRAHAM GREENE - MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE (OMNIBUS) (320kbs-m4a/314mb/2hrs16mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th December 2022 & 1st January 2023
Part of 4 Extra's Bernard Cribbins Day. The actor would have turned 94 on 29th December 2022.
Graham Greene's comic reworking of Cervantes' classic novel, set in rural Spain a few years after the death of Franco.
Starring Bernard Cribbins.
Director: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.
GRAHAM GREENE - MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE (OMNIBUS) - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/157mb/68mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th December 2022
Father Quixote makes a friend of an Italian bishop, with unexpected consequences.
Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.
Father Quixote ...... Bernard Cribbins
Sancho ...... Philip Jackson
Teresa ...... Susan Jameson
The Italian Bishop ...... Sean Baker
The Spanish Bishop ...... Brian Protheroe
Father Herrera ...... Nick Underwood
Shop Assistant ...... James Lailey
Guardia 1 ...... Sam Rix
Guardia 2 ...... Sean Baker
Guardia 3 ...... Tom Forrister
GRAHAM GREENE - MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE (OMNIBUS) - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/156mb/68mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st January 2023
A robber is helped by Father Quixote and Sancho, who pay an unexpected price.
Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.
Father Quixote ...... Bernard Cribbins
Sancho ...... Philip Jackson
Teresa ...... Susan Jameson
The Robber/Father Jose/Father Leopoldo ...... James Lailey
The Spanish Bishop ...... Brian Protheroe
Doctor Galvan/ Senor Diego ...... Sean Baker
The Youth/Man 2 ...... Tom Forrister
Man 1 ...... Jason Barnett
Guardia 4 ...... Sam Rix
GRAHAM GREENE - THE HONORARY CONSUL (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th & 13th October 2020
In a conversation with Nicholas Shakespeare, Graham Greene once named 'The Honorary Consul' as his favourite among all his novels, "...because the characters change and that is very difficult to do."
In this superbly tense story of political kidnap and sexual betrayal set at the beginning of Argentina's Dirty War in early 1970s, Greene's characters find themselves on a switchback ride of love, sacrifice and violence.
Isolated Dr Eduardo Plarr, son of a missing political prisoner, is lured into collaborating with a defrocked priest in a kidnap plot, only to find the lives of two people he doesn't care for, suddenly in his hands.
Meanwhile Charles Fortnum, the elderly and drunken Honorary Consul in a one-horse town near the Paraguayan border, faces his own terrors, and the loss of the young prostitute he has fallen in love with.
Greene added: "For me the sinner and the saint can meet; there is no discontinuity, no rupture... The basic element I admire in Christianity is its sense of moral failure. That is its very foundation. For once you're conscious of personal failure, then perhaps in future you become a little less fallible. In 'The Honorary Consul' I did suggest this idea, through the guerrilla priest, that God and the devil were actually one and the same person – God had a day-time and a night-time face, but that He evolved, as Christ tended to prove, towards His day-time face – absolute goodness – thanks to each positive act of men."
Dramatised by Nick Warburton.
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January/February 2016.
GRAHAM GREENE - THE HONORARY CONSUL - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th October 2020
The first of two episodes dramatised for radio by Nick Warburton.
Dr. Eduardo Plarr ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild
Charley Fortnum ..... Matthew Marsh
León Rivas ..... Stefano Braschi
Aquino ..... Martin Marquez
Clara ..... Beatriz Romilly
Dr Humphries ..... Ewan Bailey
Colonel Perez ..... Chris Pavlo
Gruber ..... Sean Baker
Father ..... Brian Protheroe
Teresa ..... Rebecca Hamilton
GRAHAM GREENE - THE HONORARY CONSUL - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th October 2020
In this concluding episode, Plarr's attempts to help Charley get him death threats from the police. Not only is the state closing in on Plarr, but his own past too.
Dr Eduardo Plarr ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild
Charley Fortnum ..... Matthew Marsh
León Rivas ..... Stefano Braschi
Aquino ..... Martin Marquez
Clara ..... Beatriz Romilly
Dr Humphries ..... Ewan Bailey
Colonel Perez ..... Chris Pavlo
Marta ..... Yolanda Vazquez
Crichton ..... George Watkins
José ..... Sean Baker
Father ..... Brian Protheroe
GRAHAM GREENE - A BURNT-OUT CASE (320kbs-m4a/262mb/1hr54mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st & 2nd February 2021
Querry, a celebrated architect of churches believes himself burnt out: unable to feel anything for his profession, his faith or even the suicide of his mistress.
The story reflects many of Greene's own personal struggles with his celebrity as a famous 'Catholic' author and his own doubts about his faith.
Written by Graham Greene
Dramatised by Nick Warburton.
Directed by Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.
GRAHAM GREENE - A BURNT-OUT CASE - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st February 2021
Querry journeys to a remote leper colony in Africa. There, he hopes to live in obscurity, unconcerned with the fate of others and to die, but it seems that he may have a second chance to find both happiness and redemption.
Querry .... Ben Miles
Dr Colin .... Danny Sapani
Rycker .... Jonathan Aris
Marie .... Kathryn Drysdale
The Superior .... Neil McCaul
Father Thomas .... Philip Bretherton
Father Joseph .... Clive Hayward
Father Paul .... Adam Fitzgerald
Deo Gratias .... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Madame Guelle .... Sudha Bhuchar
Captain .... David Reakes
Controller .... David Reakes
Marie Morel .... Isabella Inchbald
Parkinson .... Stephen Critchlow
Narrator .... Adjoa Andoh
GRAHAM GREENE - A BURNT-OUT CASE - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd February 2021
Querry, a celebrated architect of churches, doubting his faith and his lack of humanity has fled to a remote leprosy colony in Africa. There, he has begun to find a type of contentment. But his whereabouts are leaked to the press and Querry becomes a hunted man with nowhere left to run.
Querry .... Ben Miles
Dr Colin .... Danny Sapani
Rycker .... Jonathan Aris
Marie .... Kathryn Drysdale
Parkinson .... Stephen Critchlow
The Superior .... Neil McCaul
Father Thomas .... Philip Bretherton
Father Joseph .... Clive Hayward
Father Paul .... Adam Fitzgerald
Deo Gratias .... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Marie Morel .... Isabella Inchbald
Mother Agnes .... Kath Weare
Narrator .... Adjoa Andoh
GRAHAM GREENE - THE POWER AND THE GLORY (320kbs-m4a/262mb/1hr54mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th & 9th December 2020
Stephen Rea and Hugo Speer star in 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 in two parts by Nick Warburton.
Director: Emma Harding.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016.
GRAHAM GREENE - THE POWER AND THE GLORY - 1. ON THE RUN (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th December 2020
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.
GRAHAM GREENE - THE POWER AND THE GLORY - 2. THE LAST PRIEST (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 9th December 2020
The Lieutenant remains determined to track down the whisky priest...
GRAHAM GREENE - THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr54mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st & 22nd April 2020
Graham Greene's masterful tale of suspense was written at the same time as his masterpiece The Power and The Glory.
It was written in six weeks in 1938 as England stood on the brink of war, and the story is suffused with paranoia, distrust and urgency. He wrote it as an 'Entertainment' with the hope of getting a film made of the book and therefore providing much needed income for his family, in which he succeeded.
It's a tense thriller where the hero must avoid trap after trap that is set for him haunted by the memory of his dead wife and his own time in prison awaiting execution.
Dramatised by Nick Perry
Director: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016.
GRAHAM GREENE - THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st April 2020
When Edgar Dominguez is sent to England on a mission to arrange a supply of coal for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War it seems a straightforward business negotiation; but no sooner does he set foot on English soil than he finds himself a hunted man, with seemingly no one he can trust and implicated in murder.
Edgar Dominguez ..... Alun Raglan
Rose Cullen ..... Flora Spencer-Longhurst
Captain Currie ..... John Dougall
Victor Lazaro ..... Jot Davies
Ronald Kaye ..... John Bowler
Elsie ..... Kezia Joseph
Mrs Mendrill ..... Karen Bartke
Bertie Forbes ..... Nick Murchie
Spanish Diplomat ..... Stefano Braschi
Lord Benditch ..... David Sterne
Secretary ..... Natasha Cowley
Begging Man ..... Luke MacGregor
GRAHAM GREENE - THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd April 2020
Edgar Dominguez faces accusations of the murder of Elsie Griffiths whilst at the Spanish Embassy but flees and is hiding from the police.
Determined to avenge her murder and complete his deal, Dominguez turns from the hunted to the hunter.
Edgar Dominguez ..... Alun Raglan
Rose Cullen ..... Flora Spencer-Longhurst
Spanish Diplomat ..... Stefano Braschi
Inspector Collis ..... Stephen Critchlow
Ronald Kaye ..... John Bowler
Jim Barton ..... Ian Conningham
Secretary ..... Natasha Cowley
Woman in Benditch ..... Karen Bartke
Bertie Forbes ..... Nick Murchie
Captain Currie ..... John Dougal
Freddy ..... Luke MacGregor
Policeman in Benditch ...... David Sterne
Policeman in London ..... Gavi Singh Chera