Episode 5

Denny and Manson are arrested. Can they extricate themselves from a scandal that will ruin their careers?

Set in the mid-1920s and based on AJ Cronin's ground breaking novel.

Andrew Manson, a newly trained doctor, is settling into Drineffy - a South Wales mining town.

Manson …. Richard Fleeshman
Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones
Branwell .... Philip Fox
Gwyneth .... Fiona Clarke
PC Davies .... Simeon Truby

Dramatised by Christopher Reason.

Director: Gary Brown

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017.