Unconditional Surrender
Injuring his knee on a parachute jump, Guy thinks his wartime experience is over, until fresh orders arrive. Stars Paul Ready.
by Evelyn Waugh
Dramatised by Jeremy Front
Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece:
After injuring his knee during a parachute jump, Guy believes his wartime experience is at an end, but then he receives orders to fly to Italy on a secret mission.
Directed by Tracey Neale
Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of novels mark a high point in his literary career. Originally published as three volumes: Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and published as the one-volume Sword of honour in 1965, in the form in which Waugh himself wished they to be read. They are dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes.
This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy
Crouchback. Witty and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most enduring novel. Sword of Honour effortlessly treads the line between the personal and the political - it is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from isolation to self fulfilment.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
---|---|
Narrator | Tim McInnerny |
Guy | Paul Ready |
Virginia | Lydia Leonard |
Peregrine | John Rowe |
Ian Kilbannock | Oliver Chris |
Ritchie-Hook | Tim Pigott-Smith |
Frank De Souza | Joel MacCormack |
Angela | Priyanga Burford |
Arthur Box-Bender | Robert Daws |
Eloise | Carolyn Pickles |
Bakic | Chris Pavlo |
Madame Kanyi | Mia Soteriou |
Loot | David Seddon |
Major Cattermole | Arthur Hughes |
Squadron Leader | John Norton |
Dawkins | Michael Bertenshaw |
Commandant | Michael Bertenshaw |
Elderberry | Michael Bertenshaw |
Priest | Sean Murray |
Gilpin | Sean Murray |
Orderly | Harry Jardine |
Director | Tracey Neale |
Adaptor | Jeremy Front |
Author | Evelyn Waugh |
Broadcasts
- Sun 10 Nov 2013 15:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sat 16 Nov 2013 21:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Tue 19 Apr 2016 10:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 19 Apr 2016 15:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 20 Apr 2016 03:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
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