The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell
Adapted by Mike Walker
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
Gamalan Music composed and played by Felix Jay
Trumpet solos by Byron Wallen
BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
3 x 60mins episodes
Epiosode 1 - 29.10.2000
Epiosode 2 - 05.11.2000
Epiosode 3 - 12.11.2000
Plot[]
Dramatization of the novel by JG Farrell
A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life.
The setting is the island of Singapore, starting in 1937, just before the outbreak of World War II, it moves on to describe the fall of Singapore.
Cast[]
- J G Farrell...................Robert Glenister
- Matthew Webb..................Jonathon Cake
- Joan Blacket..................Samantha Spiro
- Jim Erindorff.................Kenny Blythe
- Monty Blacket.................David Thorpe
- Major Archer..................John Rowe
- Walter Blacket................Timothy Bateson
- Vera Chang....................Suelyn Lui?
- Air Marshal Brooke-Poppen.....Terence Edmond
- Brigadier.....................Karl Johnson
- Governor......................John East
- Captain Sinclair..............Alex Tudor
- General Percival..............Barry Foster
- Mr Smith......................David Thorpe
- ADC...........................Thomas Arnold