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form y separately published work icon The Train single work   radio play  
Adaptation of Le Train Georges Simenon , 1958 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1972... 1972 The Train
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'That's when the idea came to me of leaving my son another picture of myself - not just a shopkeeper father, a timid husband with no ambition.... I wonder if it wouldn't do him some good to learn that for a few weeks there had been a different man inside me - one capable of real passion.'

Source: Radio Times, 5 May 1976, p.43.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 4 September 1972, from 8:30pm.

    Producer: Betty Davies.

    Cast: Peter Sallis, Madi Hedd, Michael Harbour, Ronald Herdman, Edward Kelsey, William Eedle, Michael Kilgarrift, Robin Browne, Betty Baskcomb, Susan Edmonstone, and Olwen Griffiths.


    Rebroadcast (with same cast) on BBC Radio 4 on 5 May 1976, from 3:05pm.

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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1940
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