Classic Serial - Beau Geste - Episode 2

Dramatisation by Graeme Fife of PC Wren's classic story of honour, love and adventure. The Geste brothers become the focus of suspicion and hostility from an assortment of international ne'er do wells thrown together as a platoon of the French Foreign Legion. A sudden attack on a remote desert fort by Toureg raiders brings matters to a head and provides the explanation for the disappearance of the Blue Water sapphire. Beau ...... Chris New John ...... Rob Hastie Lawrence ...... Michael Culkin Major Jolivet ...... Timothy Ackroyd Aunt Patricia ...... Tessa Worsley Isobel ...... Candida Benson Gussie ...... Anthony Schuster Burdon ...... Scott Richards Young Beau ...... Nick Hockaday Young Gussie ...... Freddie Hill Young John ...... Alex Hockaday Young Claudia ...... Hannah Sharpe Young Isobel ...... Melissa Gardner Lejeune ...... Nick Fletcher Boldini ...... Laurence Possa Hank ...... Greg Wohead Buddy ...... Don Mousseau The Sergeant ...... Alasdair MacEwan Recruiting Officer ...... Max Bennet Schwartz ...... Simon Scardifield Original music by Roger Pasto Cortina Directed by Willi Richards An Art and Adventure Ltd production for BBC Radio 4.