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2. Everybody's in a Racket

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Post-war Vienna: Harry Lime is dead, but his friend Rollo Martins has suspicions about the circumstances. Read by Samuel West.

Second-rate thriller writer Rollo Martins has arrived in a snow-bound postwar Vienna to meet his old school chum Harry Lime 鈥� only to find that Harry has recently been killed in a car accident.

And now the police are accusing him of racketeering. Rollo is desperate to clear his old friend鈥檚 name, and already the circumstances of Harry鈥檚 death are proving suspicious鈥�

Samuel West reads from the classic Graham Greene novella that inspired one of the most acclaimed films of all time, starring Orson Welles.

Author: Graham Greene
Reader: Samuel West
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by Anton Karas.

First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in June 2016.

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Reader Sam West
Author Graham Greene
Abridger Richard Hamilton
Producer Justine Willett

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