Only The Good Die Young: A BBC Radio 4 Thriller

A tense six-part techno-thriller, set during the era of George Bush and Boris Yeltsin

Mike Fisher has everything to live for: a stunning model girlfriend, who has just accepted his proposal, and a successful career as a computer programmer. So why would he suddenly resign, dress up in women's underwear and crash his car into a tree? And if he wanted to kill himself, why do it on his wedding day?

His death is ruled as suicide, but his fiancée Kim Drake is sure there's more to it than meets the eye. Determined to find out what really happened, she retraces Mike's footsteps across Europe, where she learns he'd been keeping crucial secrets relating to his highly sensitive job at Peregrine Communications Systems and his involvement with certain disaffected members of the European intelligence community.

Aided by ex-Stasi agent Otto, rock producer Charles Causley and Mike's brother, disabled cyperpunk genius Todd Fisher, she travels across Germany, Denmark and France in search of answers. But Kim's every move is being watched by the sinister Mr Stone, and her dogged investigations are putting her in terrible danger...

First broadcast in 1992, this hard-hitting, electrifying drama was created by award-winning writer and actor Shaun Prendergast, who plays Otto. It stars Siriol Jenkins as Kim, Kenneth Cranham as Stone, Neil Roberts as Mike, Okon Jones as Charles and Jack Klaff as Todd.

Production credits Written by Shaun Prendergast Produced and directed by Adrian Bean Technical presentation by Wilfredo Acosta, Michael Atherton and Ian Pratt

Cast Kim Drake - Siriol Jenkins Mike Fisher - Neil Roberts Anne/Optician's receptionist/Jean/Clearwater - Kate Binchy Frank/Otto/Burns - Shaun Prendergast Miss Gee - Ann Davies Stone - Kenneth Cranham Todd - Jack Klaff DI Dear - Eric Alan DS Love - Jonathan Tafler John Maschler - Terence Edmond Emma/Nurse Lewis - Caroline Strong Mary/WPC - Nicola Boyce Charles - Okon Jones Wilson - Peter Gunn Doris Meyer/Computer/Hotel receptionist - Joanna Wake Helga/Prostitute - Melanie Hudson DI Dear - Eric Allen DS Love/Victor - Jonathan Tafler Seeta Kumar - Mamta Kaash Welkin/Journalist - William Roberts Jill Noone - Alice Arnold Nelson - Kenneth McClellan Doctor - Teresa Streatfield

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 23 April-28 May 1992

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Lydbog: 23. september 2021