BBC Radio Thriller Collection - Jack Higgins

Written by Jack Higgins
Read by Michael Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Jeffrey, Moir Leslie, Peter Acre, David Bamber, Frank Grimes, Graham Padden, full cast
Format: MP3
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Dramatization

The Eagle Has Landed, the Eagle Has Flown and Exocet: Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Thrillers
By: Jack Higgins
Narrated by: Michael Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Jeffrey, Moir Leslie, Peter Acre, David Bamber, Frank Grimes, Graham Padden, full cast
Release date
20-03-2025
Language
English
Format
Radio/TV Program
Length
5 hrs and 48 mins
Publisher
BBC Audio
Categories
Literature & Fiction

Full-cast dramatisations of three of Jack Higgins’ best-known novels

Jack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands War thriller Exocet.

The Eagle Has Landed – November 1943, and Winston Churchill is planning a weekend’s relaxation in the Norfolk village of Studley Constable. Little does he know that a crack group of German paratroopers, aided by deadly IRA gunman Liam Devlin, are waiting to kidnap him and deliver him to Adolf Hitler…Starring Michael Fitzgerald, Frank Grimes, Rosemary Martin and Harry Patterson, aka Jack Higgins, this classic story is one of the greatest World War Two adventures ever told.

The Eagle Has Flown – Gunned down during ‘Operation Eagle’, German paratrooper Kurt Steiner is alive, but a prisoner in the Tower of London. Now Himmler wants him back, and calls in the one man with the skills to retrieve him: Liam Devlin. Harry Paterson stars as himself, Jack Higgins, with Michael Fitzgerald as Steiner, Frank Grimes as Devlin and Graham Padden as Himmler.

Exocet – Argentina has invaded the Falkland Islands, forcing Britain to send in a naval task force to reclaim them. With war looming, Brigadier Charles Ferguson of MI6 recruits the beautiful Gabrielle Legrand to spy on her Argentinian lover, Raul Montera. Her mission: to work alongside her ex-husband, Tony Villiers, to foil a Soviet plot to sell deadly Exocet missiles to Argentina… Peter Jeffrey, Michael N Harbour, Moir Leslie and William Hope star in this riveting four-part drama.

Text copyright © Jack Higgins 1971, 1983 (The Eagle Has Landed), 1983 (Exocet), 1991 (The Eagle Has Flown)