Graham Greene - Stamboul Train

GRAHAM GREENE - STAMBOUL TRAIN (320kbs-m4a/199mb/1hr26mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 27th September 2025

Europe in the 1930s. A dangerous place to be.

As the Orient Express weaves its way through snow towards Constantinople, a motley group of people find themselves threatened by intrigue, skulduggery and murderous politics.

It is a heady cocktail of wit, adventure, mystery, interrogations, scamming, shoot-outs and sexual intrigue.

Graham Greene's tense thriller novel, first published in 1932.

Greene admitted, in 1974, that he wrote it to make a bit of money. "In Stamboul Train for the first and last time in my life I deliberately set out to write a book to please, one which with luck might be made into a film. The devil looks after his own and I succeeded in both aims."

Starring Joseph Milson and Sam Dale.

Dramatised by Jeremy Front.

Myatt .... Joseph Millson
Coral .... Abbie Andrews
Czinner .... Sam Dale
Josef .... Nicholas Murchie
Mabel .... Jane Slavin
Janet .... Isabella Inchbald
Petkovitch .... Simon Ludders
Ninitch .... Samuel James
Hartep .... Phillip Fox
Mrs Peters .... Ellie Darvil
Mr Peters .... Charlie Clements

Other parts played by:

Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Adam Fitzgerald
Gary Duncan
David Reakes
Kath Weare

Director: Marc Beeby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017.