A Coat Of Many Colours
By Jim Grace
SNT 24.3.1979
John Rowe/Saeed Jaffrey/Trevor Martin
128K
A Coat of Many Colours (working title: Salateen), tx 26 March 1979 (Saturday Night Theatre, Radio 4). Directed by Michael Rolfe for BBC Birmingham. “In March, 1895, following almost thirteen years of imprisonment by the Mahdist forces in the Sudan, Rudolph Slatin escaped and made his way to an English garrison at Aswan. Slatin, an Austrian officer, and ex-Governor of Darfur, survived to tell his tale by adopting new faiths and allegiances to suit the occasion. His credo of ‘survival’ runs contrary to that of George Chesney, the young Victorian officer and gentleman to whom he tells his tale.” (Radio Times billing).
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