Afternoon Reading - Parlez-vous British? - The Taipan

Part of a series of stories revealing the best - and worst - of the Nation's behaviour on foreign soil. Martin Jarvis reads Somerset Maugham's classic 1922 story The Taipan. A self-satisfied business man lives and works in Hong Kong, where his lifestyle far exceeds anything he could have achieved at home in the UK. But in the Far East, inexplicable - even frightening - things can happen. Director: Rosalind Ayres A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4.