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Keeping the Wolf Out
- The Complete BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Crime Series
- Narrated by: Leo Bill, Clare Corbett, full cast, Joseph Ayre, Andy Linden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
A gritty thriller set behind the Iron Curtain in 1960s Hungary.
Budapest, 1963. Special Investigator Bertalan Lázár and his wife, spymaster Franciska Lázár, face formidable challenges as they try to navigate a path through the dangerous underworld of Cold War-era Hungary. Catching the criminals is difficult enough, but there are other more threatening battles raging in higher places.
In these 16 episodes, Bertalan must investigate the murder of a former member of the secret police, fight a turf war as he tries to find a child killer, probe a seemingly straightforward case of GBH that leads him to a rogue cop and enter the uncharted territory of Budapest's underground drugs scene after a rock musician is found dead.
Written by Philip Palmer, this gripping, atmospheric drama expertly conjures up the tense, paranoid world of communist Hungary, where dissidence was dangerous, the truth was hard to find and pursuing justice could get you killed. Leo Bill stars as Bertalan and Clare Corbett as Franciska, with Andy Linden as Tibor Farkas and Joseph Ayre as József Szabados.
The episodes in this collection are:
- 'The Wolf'
- 'The Old Days'
- 'Behind the Wall'
- 'Waiting by the River'
- 'Heroes'
- 'Gellert Hill'
- 'Spider's Web'
- 'Carnaby Street'
- 'Gypsy Dancers'
- 'Grandmother's Footsteps'
- 'Mad Dog'
- 'The Light of Dawn'
- 'The Great Society'
- 'Red Pen'
- 'The Great Tree Gang'
- 'The Magical Magyars'
Produced and directed by Toby Swift and Sasha Yevtushenko
Sound design by Caleb Knightley
Cast
Bertalan Lázár - Leo Bill
Franciska Lázár - Clare Corbett
Tibor Farkas - Andy Linden
József Szabados - Joseph Ayre
Gizella - Nicola Ferguson
Bela Fekete - Sargon Yelda
Mr Papp - Nick Underwood
Kitchen Porter - Richard Pepple
Police Officer/Csaba - Sam Rix
Lilien Racz - Adie Allen
Milton Szilard - Philip Fox
Kristof Szep - Samuel James
Mr Kiraly - Robert Blythe
Waiter/Peterke - Tom Forrister
Mrs Tolnay - Sanchia MacCormack
Stenographer - Kerry Gooderson
Dmitri Dragunov - Simon Scardifield
Márk Mészáros - Michael Bertenshaw
András Vásáry - David Hounslow
Priest/Copper - Christopher Harper
Gyuri Varg/Fabenyi/Police officer/Partygoer - Kenny Blyth
Dorina Varga - Helen Clapp
Ministry official/Police officer/Drug dealer/Partygoer - Chris Pavlo
Hanna Krivosik - Franchi Webb
Zsófia/Nurse 1 - Sarah Ovens
PuŠomori Žiga - Debbie Korley
Mrs Kovacs/Nurse 2/Receptionist - Susan Jameson
Gyozo Novak - Carl Prekopp
Florian Hevesi - Luke Nunn
Sandor Boros - Stephen Greif
Pathologist - Jane Whittenshaw
Cop/Detective - Stefan Adegbola
Mother - Emma Handy
Kulcsar - Roger Ringrose
Draskovic - Ewan Bailey
Billiards player/Prison officer - Ian Dunnett Jnr
Hadik - Hasan Dixon
Richard Miklos/Károly Miklós/Laska - Shaun Mason
Violinist/Márton Kozma/Police Officer/Priest - Simon Ludders
Réka Kozma/Pathologist - Jane Slavin
Archivist/Ioveanu - Tony Turner
Orsolya - Ria Marshall
Receptionist - David Sturzaker
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Philip Knight
- 02-04-23
Sensational
Great stories, both individually and the long running thread. Brilliant performances, creating utterly believable characters that I cared about.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- IWFIcon
- 15-05-23
Not for me
i wanted to like this. The performances are good enough and there's an atmospheric pleasure to it all,
The problem is the characters. None of them are likeable enough to me to carry over 11 hours.
Bertalan Lázár and his wife Franciska Lázár are not likeable, however much they seem to be fighting on the "right side" of things. They barely seem to like each other at times. The police boss (and authority in general) is meant to be unlikable I know but at times I found myself hoping the traps set for Lazar during his work would succeed. Similarly with his wife; oh if only her actions were uncovered at the beginning,
Even Lazar's sidekick, if you can call him that, is unlikable. Although he at least perhaps has the excuse of not knowing any better and being led by nasty people on all sides.
I'm all for "gritty" but this just doesn't work if I don't care about any of the characters. Couldn't even finish this one off to be honest. It gets three stars though because it's well done from a production point of view and could well be better received by many other listeners.
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