Landfall by Nevil Shute

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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 BBC Home Service in May 1964. *********************************************************************************************************************************** Landfall is part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection of selected titles returned to the BBC by various collectors. Our warm thanks go to the Radio Circle.