BBC R4 - Gore Vidal's 'Death In The Fifth Position'

Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters

Read by Jamie Parker

Broadcast in ten parts November, 2015

Here consolidated into two files

Coded from a digital source at 160/44.1



1951. McCarthyite New York



BBC Blurb

Gore Vidal (writing as Edgar Box) entertains with the mysterious death of a ballerina.



Dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is hired by a ballet company on the eve of a major

performance. Handling the press seems to be no problem, but when a rising star in the

company is killed during the performance - dropped from thirty feet above the stage,

crashing to her death in a perfect fifth position Sargent has a real case on his hands.

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