Classic Drama: Thirty-Nine Steps, The
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Classic Drama: Thirty-Nine Steps, The

John Buchan
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 1 hour 50 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature
Dramatizations
Classics
Action & Adventure
Drama
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Tom Baker stars as Sir Walter Bullivant with David Robb as man of action Richard Hannay in a thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.

In this classic tale of wartime espionage, Richard Hannay’s living nightmare begins at home with the discovery of a dead man in his London flat. He becomes an innocent on the run, pursued by the police for a murder he didn’t commit.

In Scotland Hannay realises that the notebook he recovered from the dead man is worth far more than he first thought, not least of all to a gang of German spies who will apparently stop at nothing to retrieve it.

The Foreign Office in London is his last refuge of safety, and when Sir Walter Bullivant becomes convinced of Hannay’s innocence the two join forces. If they are to foil German plans to attack the British fleet, they must first unlock the notebook’s secret of the thirty-nine steps...

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Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.