Down Payment on Death BBC - Jim Eldridge

Written by Jim Eldridge
Read by Full Cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Down Payment on Death
BBC Radio Drama Thriller
By: Jim Eldridge
Narrated by: full cast, Manning Wilson, Frances Jeater, Glyn Owen, Dinsdale Landen, Jon Croft, Peter Craze
Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 25-03-2021
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

Dinsdale Landen stars in this gripping vintage 1970’s crime drama about a retired hitman tempted by one last job.

Sick of the spying business, professional assassin Art Gordo decides to quit the Secret Service - but his old life won’t leave him alone.

It’s Christmas, three months after his retirement, and Gordo is visited by an old colleague with a proposition. A senior MI7 agent has been selling secrets to the opposition and needs to be eliminated - and the job can’t be traced back to the Department. What’s more, the task must be completed within the next five days. Clarke’s offering big money - but despite the temptation, Art turns him down. Only someone won’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

Hunted by a mysterious nemesis who’ll stop at nothing - including murder - to get their way, Gordo finds himself caught in a deadly game of deception, double-cross and betrayal. To stay alive, he must find out the truth about his shadowy target and re-enter a world he thought he’d left behind. A world with only one rule: kill or be killed….

Originally produced in the 1970s, this twisty, fast-moving suspense thriller stars Dinsdale Landen as Art Gordo and Frances Jeater as Louise.

First broadcast on BBC World Service, 3-31 May 1976

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WARNING! There are 4 mins of “dramatic” 70’s theme music at the end of each episode.