Prize Fighting

The judges of a prestigious international book prize meet on the day the winner is to be announced.

Tensions rise as they bicker over picking the winner. Then there’s a knock on the door.

Detective Inspector Pearce announces that terrorists have planted a bomb under the Bank of England.

Unless their own, populist, choice of book is announced as winner, they will detonate it.

What are they going to do..?

Fantasy crime thriller written by Caroline and David Stafford

Sara Teck .... Helen Atkinson Wood
Helen Kinross .... Isla Blair
Clive Renshaw .... John Duttine
Inspector Gordon Pearce .... Roy Marsden
Sir Archie Northcote .... Geoffrey Palmer
Aki Demetriades .... Nadim Sawalha

Director Marc Jobst

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998.