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The true story behind General Charles de Gaulle's secret flight from France at the height of the civil unrest of 1968.

His helicopter flew across a Paris of smoking barricades and running battles in the streets. Ten million people were on strike – two-thirds of the workforce.

Panic unfolds at the centre of the government and the fractured relationship between desperate de Gaulle and his Prime Minister Georges Pompidou.

Starring Ronald Pickup as de Gaulle, Barbara Flynn as Yvonne de Gaulle and Philip Jackson as Georges Pompidou.

Based on first-hand testimony, Mike Walker's drama paints a vivid picture of France teetering on the brink of a second revolution.

Joxe/ Massu ...... Nicholas Boulton
Daniel Cohn-Bendit ...... Rory Fleck-Byrne
Yvonne de Gaulle ..... Barbara Flynn
'Michel' ...... Steven Hartley
Georges Pompidou ..... Philip Jackson
General de Gaulle ...... Ronald Pickup
Fouchet/ De Boissieu ...... Daniel Weyman

Producer: David Morley

A Perfectly Normal production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4, first broadcast on April 2018.