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A collection of Byron Rogers’ travel pieces in search of characters and unlikely heroes.

Including:

A visit to the packed treasure house of a costume store.
An unnamed Spanish 'Badlands' town built in the 1960s by Sergio Leone for ‘A Fistful of Dollars’.
In Beverly Hills he visits ‘one of the saddest places on Earth’ – the switchboard at Central Casting.
The extraordinary tale of Hitler's nephew, William, born in Liverpool.
Tracking down Hungarian Ocsi Tabak – ‘Captain Apollo’ - the last human cannonball.

Omnibus of five-parts abridged by the author.

Read by Crawford Logan

Producer: Bruce Young

First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in July 2005.