Episode 6
The police are getting closer to Allan and his friends at Lake Farm, and so are the Never Again gang.
police and thieves, and moments in world history. As his mother put it, "Things are what they are, and whatever will be will be."
At 100 years-old, Allan Karlsson is a reluctant birthday boy. In the old people's home they've prepared a party for him. The Mayor and the local press will be there. But this party never gets started. Still in his bedroom slippers, Allan makes his getaway through the window and begins an unlikely adventure.
Allan is no stranger to adventure, as the stories of his earlier life reveal - a life in which he dined with world leaders such as Franco, Truman and Stalin and found himself behind the scenes during major events of the twentieth century.
Jonas Jonasson was born in 1961 in Vaxjö, Sweden. After starting up and then running the successful media company OTW for twenty years, he sold the business and moved to Switzerland. There he completed The Hundred-year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared. Jonas lives on the island of Gotland in Sweden.
Translated by Rod Bradbury.
Episode 6:
The police are getting closer to Allan and his friends at Lake Farm. And so are the Never Again gang.
Reader: Martin Jarvis
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Rosalynd Ward
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Martin Jarvis |
| Producer | Rosalynd Ward |
| Abridger | Jeremy Osborne |
| Author | Jonas Jonasson |
Broadcast
- Mon 30 Dec 201322:45BBC Radio 4
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