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'Wars come, and all the world is shattered by their blast. But through it all young people meet and marry....small people of no great significance who are caught up and swept together in the great whirlwind of war.... life goes on, though temples rock and the tall buildings start and crumble in the dust of their destruction.’"

Can coastal RAF pilot Jerry Chambers clear his name after being blamed for the sinking of a British submarine?

Starring Geoffrey Matthews and Penelope Lee.

Nevil Shute’s gripping wartime novel first published in 1940.

Dramatised by Stephen Grenfell.

Jerry .... Geoffrey Matthews
Mona .... Penelope Lee
Wing-Cdr Dickens .... Frederick Treves
Captain Burnaby .... Ralph Truman
Narrator/Matheson .... Gabriel Woolf
F/Lt Hooper .... Gordon Faith
Radio Operator .... Glyn Dearman
Cdr Rutherford .... Kenneth Hyde
Trawler Commander .... Kevin Flood
Air Force C O .... Norman Claridge
Wing-Cdr Hewitt .... Garard Green
Professor Legge .... Hamilton Dyce
Mrs Burnaby .... Olga Lindo
Mona's father .... John Boxer
Commander Sutton .... Alan Haines
Admiral .... William Fox
Nurse Mackenzie .... Dorothy Smith
Nurse Loring .... Margaret Wolfit
Captain Jorgen .... George Hagan
Airman .... Wesley Murphy

Producer: Betty Davies

First broadcast on the 91¸£ÀûÉç 91¸£ÀûÉç Service in May 1964.

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Landfall is part of 91¸£ÀûÉç Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection of selected titles returned to the 91¸£ÀûÉç by various collectors.

Our warm thanks go to the Radio Circle.

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