5. Promise of Spring

Wainwright and Carter awake to find themselves on board a Finnish cargo-boat bound for Vladivostok.

They've just decided Mettold has double-crossed them. But where does Ilena stand?

Espionage and intrigue as a recently convicted spy is ordered to be sprung from jail, just a year into a 25 year sentence.

But what is the motivation and who is behind the plan?

Starring Christopher Good and Graham Blockey.

Berkely Mather's spy thriller serial.

Charles Wainwright .... Christopher Good
Ilena .... Melinda Walker
Carter .... Graham Blockey
Captain Kjaer.... Henry Stamper
First Mate .... Jonathan Owen

Producer: Graham Gauld

Director: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1985.