The Great Escape (radio serial)

The Great Escape is a 1954 Australian radio serial by Morris West based on the novel by Paul Brickhill produced by Gordon Grimsdale.

Grimsdale and West also did radio adaptations of Brickhill's books The Dam Busters and Reach for the Sky. The three were all recorded in Sydney, where West had moved following the end of his first marriage.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph said " it develops a pace and a tenseness that are rarely heard in a radio production. Most of the credit for this is due to the adapter, Mr. Morris West. . The actors— as generally happens when Australian actors are given the opportunity of a good script— are impeccablyin character."

The Brisbane Telegraph called it "a really grand contribution to local radio. No pseudo heroics or passions- upon which so many of commercial r«.dio thrill spinners depend — just a drama so simply told and enacted as to make the throat achg with pity at the courage and the foolishness of men."

The Adelaide Mail called it "an excellent follow-up for The Dambusters."

Cast

 * Guy Doleman as Roger Bushell
 * David Eadie
 * Bruce Stewart
 * Charles Tingwell
 * William Orr
 * Harp McGuire
 * Rod Taylor
 * John Ewart