4 Extra Debut. When a Republican agent in the Spanish Civil war arrives in England on a mission, he becomes a hunted man. Stars Alun Raglan.

When Edgar Dominguez is sent to England on a mission to arrange a supply of coal for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War it seems a straightforward business negotiation; but no sooner does he set foot on English soil than he finds himself a hunted man, with seemingly no one he can trust and implicated in murder.

Graham Greene's masterful tale of suspense. was written at the same time as his masterpiece The Power and The Glory.

It was written in six weeks in 1938 as England stood on the brink of war, and the story is suffused with paranoia, distrust and urgency. He wrote it as an 'Entertainment' with the hope of getting a film made of the book and therefore providing much needed income for his family, in which he succeeded.

It's a tense thriller where the hero must avoid trap after trap that is set for him haunted by the memory of his dead wife and his own time in prison awaiting execution.

Dramatised in two parts by Nick Perry

Edgar Dominguez ..... Alun Raglan

Rose Cullen ..... Flora Spencer-Longhurst

Captain Currie ..... John Dougall

Victor Lazaro ..... Jot Davies

Ronald Kaye ..... John Bowler

Elsie ..... Kezia Joseph

Mrs Mendrill ..... Karen Bartke

Bertie Forbes ..... Nick Murchie

Spanish Diplomat ..... Stefano Braschi

Lord Benditch ..... David Sterne

Secretary ..... Natasha Cowley

Begging Man ..... Luke MacGregor

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016.