The Body Is Lying

Taut crime thriller by leading Polish writer, Zygmunt Miloszewski, dramatised for radio by Mark Lawson. War time secrets and modern politics mesh in a murder mystery.

The complexities and frustrations of the modern Polish legal system are the setting for this bestselling crime novel, featuring long suffering State Prosecutor Szacki who finds himself trapped in a limbo land of half-truths and secrets from post-Communist Poland. Will he prove himself to be a redoubtable seeker of the truth or will he compromise?

Episode 2: The Body is Lying
State Prosecutor Szacki investigates a series of murders, all of which seem to point crudely towards some kind of alleged Jewish ritual killing. But appearance is not always what it seems. His girlfriend Klara and a cliched daytime soap bizarrely unlock the answers at last,

The writer:
Zygmunt Milosewski is a leading Polish writer. The Teodor Szacki series is hugely popular in Poland and the book series is currently being filmed.

The translator:
Antonia Lloyd Jones is a full time translator of Polish literature. She won the Found in Translation Award 2008 for the English version of The Last Supper by Pawel Huelle and is a committee member of the UK Translators Association.

The dramatist:
Mark Lawson is a well-known writer, critic and journalist.

Warsaw backgrounds - Zofia Morus
Polish language advisor - Antonia Lloyd Jones

Teodor Szacki..........................Bryan Dick
Klara Dybus ......................Rachel Austin
Leon Wilzcur.........................David Fleeshman
Grzegorz Budnik..................David Crellin
Barbara Myszynska..................Claire Benedict
Jerzy Szyller/Rabbi Zygmunt Maciejwski........Marlon Solomon

Producer/director................Polly Thomas
Sound design.................... Eloise Whitmore
Production coordinator...........Sarah Kenny
Executive producer...............John Dryden

A Naked production for BBC Radio 4.