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Colin Davis - Thin Boy

4 Extra Debut. USA, 1957: Claude 'Buck' Eatherly is a former Hiroshima atomic bomb squadron pilot. Why is he on trial? Stars Peter Marinker.

"Who is the sane one," asked the philosopher Bertrand Russell, "the man who cracks up because of Hiroshima, or the rest of us who remain unaffected by it?"

On 10 December, 1957, Claude "Buck" Eatherly, ex-509th Squadron, USAF, stood trial for robbing post offices. He pleaded not guilty by virtue of insanity....

Colin Davis's biographical play stars Peter Whitman as Claude Eatherly, Peter Marinker as the Writer, Bob Sherman as Colonel Tibbetts, Serretta Wilons as Eatherly's Woman, Bill Wallis as Dr McElroy and Nigel Anthony as Dr Constantine.

Producer: Andy Jordan

First broadcast on 成人论坛 Radio 4 in 1990.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 31 Jan 2016 04:00

Broadcasts

  • Sat 30 Jan 2016 06:00
  • Sat 30 Jan 2016 16:00
  • Sun 31 Jan 2016 04:00