A chilling drama set in an imaginary Hitler-led post-war Germany. Anton Lesser stars as Kriminalpolizei detective Xavier March.

Hitler has won the war...and the totalitarian Nazi regime in Germany has a terrible secret it needs to hide at all costs.

Anton Lesser stars as Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei called to investigate a suspicious death.

Best-selling thriller by Robert Harris - dramatised in five-parts by John Dryden.

Xavier March ...... Anton Lesser

Max Jaeger ...... Peter Ellis

Rudi ...... Andrew Sachs

Krause ...... Graham Padden

Jost ...... Robert Portal

Pili ...... Thomas Copeland

Frau Trinkl ...... Amanda Walker

Globus ...... Michael Byrne

Fiebes ...... Ian Gelder

Newsreader ...... Trevor Nichols

Newsreader ...... Alice Arnold

Chat Show Host ...... Ned Sherrin

Author Robert Harris is a former BBC reporter and newspaper journalist.

Producer: John Dryden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.