Woman's Hour Drama - The Death of Grass - Episode 1

Dramatisation of the science fiction novel by John Christopher. It is 1956 and a virus has wiped out the crops of South East Asia, causing a famine. John Custance and his family visit his brother David's farm in Westmorland, convinced that the same thing could not happen there. Narrator ...... David Mitchell John ...... Darrell Brockis Ann ...... Rebecca Egan Roger ...... Gus Brown David ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season.