1. The Set-Up

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier.

Keeping a million when you've made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

Harvey Metcalfe had managed all three.

Jeffrey Archer's debut novel, first published in 1976.

Starring Stratford Johns, Paul Darrow, Francis Matthews, Edward De Souza and Jeremy Clyde.

Dramatised in seven parts by Betty Davies.

Harvey Metcalfe .... Stratford Johns
Stephen Bradley .... Paul Darrow
Adrian Tryner .... Francis Matthews
Jean Pierre Lamanns ....Edward De Souza
Lord James Brigsley .... Jeremy Clyde
David Kesler .... Blain Fairman
Bernie Silverman .... Bob Sherman
Time reporter .... Peter Marinker
Jorg Birrer .... Sion Probert
Frank Watts .... Michael Spice
Mr Izard .... Godfrey Kenton
Miss Fish .... Eve Karpf

Narrated by Jeffrey Archer.

Director: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1980.

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