Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man are the "Comedians" of Graham Greene's title.
How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest.
Full cast dramatisation from BBC Radio 7 starring Jonathan Firth, Kelly Reilly, Elizabeth Spriggs and T P McKenna, with John Hurt as the narrator Dramatised by Graham White
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity, and violence--this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Previously published in two volumes--Collected Short Stories and The Last Word and Other Stories--these forty-nine stories reveal Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each one confirms V. S. Pritchett's statement that Greene is "a master of storytelling."
Two BBC radio dramatisations based on Graham Greene stories. "The Third Man" is a thriller set in Vienna after World War II, and "The Fallen Idol" a psychological drama of personal relationships and a boy's tragic initiation into the world of adult emotions.
