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Landfall by Nevil Shute

4 Extra Debut. Can RAF pilot Jerry Chambers clear his name after being blamed for the sinking of a British submarine? Stars Geoffrey Matthews.

'Wars come, and all the world is shattered by their blast. But through it all young people meet and marry....small people of no great significance who are caught up and swept together in the great whirlwind of war.... life goes on, though temples rock and the tall buildings start and crumble in the dust of their destruction.’"

Can costal RAF pilot Jerry Chambers clear his name after being blamed for the sinking of a British submarine?

Starring Geoffrey Matthews and Penelope Lee.

Nevil Shute’s novel first published in 1940.

Dramatised by Stephen Grenfell.

Jerry .... Geoffrey Matthews
Mona .... Penelope Lee
Wing-Cdr, Dickens .... Frederick Treves
Captain Burnaby .... Ralph Truman
Narrator / Matheson .... Gabriel Woolf
F/Lt Hooper .... Gordon Faith
Radio Operator .... Glyn Dearman
Cdr Rutherford .... Kenneth Hyde
Trawler Commander .... Kevin Flood
Air Force C O .... Norman Claridge
Wing-Cdr Hewitt .... Garard Green
Professor Legge .... Hamilton Dyce
Mrs Burnaby .... Olga Lindo
Mona's father .... John Boxer
Commander Sutton .... Alan Haines
Admiral .... William Fox
Nurse Mackenzie .... Dorothy Smith
Nurse Loring .... Margaret Wolfit
Captain Jorgen .... George Hagan
Airman .... Wesley Murphy

Producer: Betty Davies

First broadcast on the Âé¶¹Éç Home Service in May 1964.

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Landfall is part of Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection of selected titles returned to the Âé¶¹Éç by various collectors.

Our warm thanks go to the Radio Circle.

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1 hour, 30 minutes

On radio

Wed 3 Jun 2026 14:30

Broadcasts

  • Wed 3 Jun 2026 14:30
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  • Thu 4 Jun 2026 04:30