Keeping the Wolf Out: A BBC Radio full-cast crime series

A gritty thriller set behind the Iron Curtain in 1960s Hungary

Budapest, 1964. Special Investigator Bertalan Lázár and his wife, spymaster Franciska Lázár, face formidable challenges as they try to navigate a path through the dangerous underworld of Cold War-era Hungary. Catching the criminals is difficult enough, but there are other more threatening battles raging in higher places.

In these eight episodes, Bertalan prepares to fight a turf war as he tries to find a child killer, investigates a seemingly straightforward case of GBH that leads him to a rogue cop, and enters the uncharted territory of Budapest's underground drugs scene after a rock musician is found dead.

His life is further complicated by the return of his old nemesis, Tibor Farkas, and soon both he and Franciska find themselves in the firing line as the corrupt cop turns his sights on them...

Written by Philip Palmer, this gripping, atmospheric drama expertly conjures up the tense, paranoid world of Communist Hungary, where dissidence was dangerous, the truth was hard to find and pursuing justice could get you killed. Leo Bill stars as Bertalan and Clare Corbett as Franciska, with Andy Linden as Tibor Farkas.

The episodes in this collection are: Gellert Hill Spider's Web Carnaby Street Gypsy Dancers Grandmother's Footsteps Mad Dog The Light of Dawn The Great Society

Produced and directed by Toby Swift and Sasha Yevtushenko

Cast Bertalan Lázár - Leo Bill Franciska Lázár - Clare Corbett József Szabados - Joseph Ayre Dmitri Dragunov - Simon Scardifield Márk Mészáros - Michael Bertenshaw András Vásáry - David Hounslow Priest/Copper - Christopher Harper Gyuri Varg/Fabenyi/Police officer/Partygoer - Kenny Blyth Dorina Varga - Helen Clapp Ministry official/Police officer/Drug dealer/Partygoer - Chris Pavlo Hanna Krivosik - Franchi Webb Zsófia/Nurse 1 - Sarah Ovens Tibor Farkas - Andy Linden PuŠomori Žiga - Debbie Korley Nurse 2/Receptionist - Susan Jameson Gyozo Novak - Carl Prekopp Florian Hevesi - Luke Nunn Sandor Boros - Stephen Greif Pathologist - Jane Whittenshaw Cop/Detective - Stefan Adegbola Mother - Emma Handy Kulcsar - Roger Ringrose Draskovic - Ewan Bailey Billiards player/Prison officer - Ian Dunnett Jnr

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Lydbog: 28. januar 2021