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The next leg of Carter’s journey begins, but nobody seems to know where or why.

Espionage and intrigue as a recently convicted spy is ordered to be sprung from jail, just a year into a 25-year sentence. But what is the motivation and who is behind the plan?

Charles Wainwright .... Christopher Good
Carter .... Graham Blockey
Ilena .... Melinda Walker
Mettold .... Cyril Shaps
Captain Kjaer .... Henry Stamper
First Mate .... Jonathan Owen

‘The Meisterspringer’ a six-part radio serial written by Berkely Mather, the penname of John Davies [1909-1996]. His career in radio drama spanned from 1955 to 1985, with ‘The Meisterspringer’ being his final production. A prodigious writer of screenplays, his television credits include ‘Z Cars’ and ‘The Avengers’. In the cinema, he is known for his work on three James Bond movies, ‘Dr No’, ‘From Russia with Love’ and ‘Goldfinger’.

Producer: Graham Gauld

Director: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 4 in May 1985.