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1. Escape

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A plot to run an escape route for defectors from Britain is exposed in the Outer Hebrides. Stars Edward de Souza. From 1969.

Lonely and withdrawn, the mist-veiled islands of the Outer Hebrides stand like a breakwater off Britain's north-west coast

Beyond them. out in the Atlantic, foreign trawlers maintain constant patrol, keeping an eye on the rocket range on South Uist- and more besides...

A strange discovery is made. Could it be the sign of a plot that leads all the way to the Iron Curtain?

Starring Edward De Souza.

Robert Barr's six-part story of espionage in the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides.

Jim Nicholson ...... Edward De Souza
Bill Grant ...... Geoffrey Frederick
Ian McLeod ...... Bryden Murdoch
Lieutenant Ritchie ...... Roy Spencer
Major Williams ...... Peter Hawkins
Brigadier ...... Michael Kilgarriff

Producer: Peter Titheridge.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1969.

30 minutes

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