BBC Saturday Play - Stamboul Train

Dramatised by Jeremy Front

Europe in the 1930s. A dangerous place to be. As the Orient Express rattles its way towards Constantinople, a motley group of people find themselves threatened by intrigue, skulduggery and murderous politics

Directed by Marc Beeby

Greene originally filed Stamboul Train under his 'entertainments' and 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"

Set during the 1930's, Stamboul Train takes place upon the iconic Orient Express as it weaves its way through a snowy Europe. It focuses upon a group of travellers who each have a story or secret of their own and whose lives intertwine in a tense thriller. It is a heady cocktail of wit, adventure, mystery, and sexual intrigue. It's brilliantly exciting - people in cars race trains, there are shoot-outs, tense border crossings, interrogations, scamming, seducing, faking, performing, lying, and all of this happening to the backdrop of a journey through Europe.

Contributors
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:
Philip Fox

Mrs Peters:
Ellie Darvill

Mr Peters:
Charlie Clements

Actor:
Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong

Actor:
Adam Fitzgerald

Actor:
Gary Duncan

Actor:
David Reakes

Actor:
Kath Weare

Author:
Graham Greene

Adaptor:
Jeremy Front

Director:
Marc Beeby

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1bkozmat8f0qblj/Stamboul_Train_2017-11-18.mp3/file

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  • Thanks, Mike.  This sounds exciting!!

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