Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4 Extra,03 Feb 1985,28 mins

1. Old Friends Meet

The Great Impersonation

Available for 29 days

Early in 1914, two men meet in the wilds of German East Africa - one is a German, the other an Englishman. Both men are roughly the same age, both share a similar background and each man looks almost identical to the other. This similarity gives Leopold von Ragastein a perfect opportunity... Starring David Robb. E Phillips Oppenheim's mystery thriller - first published in 1920. Dramatised in five parts by Barry Campbell. Sir Everard Dominey / Leopold von Ragastein .... David Robb Dr Schmidt .... Phillip Manikum Mangan .... William Eedle Princess Eiderstrom .... Narissa Knights Seaman .... William Hope Duchess of Worcester .... Anne Jameson Duke of Worcester .... Garard Green Capt Bartram .... Graham Pountney Director: Brian Miller First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1985.

Programme Website
More episodes