Eagle has landed, The Eagle has Flown and Exocet

Full-cast dramatisations of three of Jack Higgins' best-known novelsJack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands War thriller Exocet.The Eagle Has Landed - November 1943, and Winston Churchill is planning a weekend's relaxation in the Norfolk village of Studley Constable. Little does he know that a crack group of German paratroopers, aided by deadly IRA gunman Liam Devlin, are waiting to kidnap him and deliver him to Adolf Hitler...Starring Michael Fitzgerald, Frank Grimes, Rosemary Martin and Harry Patterson, aka Jack Higgins, this classic story is one of the greatest World War Two adventures ever told.The Eagle Has Flown - Gunned down during 'Operation Eagle', German paratrooper Kurt Steiner is alive, but a prisoner in the Tower of London. Now Himmler wants him back, and calls in the one man with the skills to retrieve him: Liam Devlin. Harry Paterson stars as himself, Jack Higgins, with Michael Fitzgerald as Steiner, Frank Grimes as Devlin and Graham Padden as Himmler.Exocet - Argentina has invaded the Falkland Islands, forcing Britain to send in a naval task force to reclaim them. With war looming, Brigadier Charles Ferguson of MI6 recruits the beautiful Gabrielle Legrand to spy on her Argentinian lover, Raul Montera. Her mission: to work alongside her ex-husband, Tony Villiers, to foil a Soviet plot to sell deadly Exocet missiles to Argentina... Peter Jeffrey, Michael N Harbour, Moir Leslie and William Hope star in this riveting four-part drama.Text copyright (c) Jack Higgins 1971, 1983 (The Eagle Has Landed), 1983 (Exocet), 1991 (The Eagle Has Flown)Cast and creditsWritten by Jack HigginsThe Eagle Has LandedJack Higgins - Harry PattersonSteiner - Michael FitzgeraldCol Radl - Ian HoggJoanna - Rosemary MartinLiam Devlin - Frank GrimesMolly - Holly AirdPamela - Kimberly HopeFather Vereker - Simon CarterChurchill - Roger HumeHimmler - Graham PaddenCanaris - Terry MolloyHitler - David HalliwellSturm - David VannMeuhoff - Neil CokerNeuman - John DixonLemke - Stephen GarlickBetty Wilde - Heather BarrettGraham - Philip MolloyArthur - Christopher GoodGeorge - Vincent BrimbleSgt Hofer - Geoffrey WhiteheadThe Eagle Has FlownLiam Devlin - Frank GrimesJack Higgins - Harry PattersonSteiner - Michael FitzgeraldVaughan - Quint BoaHimmler - Graham PaddenCanaris - Terry MolloyHitler - David HalliwellMary - Melanie RevillLavinia - Charlotte WestoramShaw - David NealRommel - Gordon ReidMunro - Leon TannerCarter - John DixonSchellenberg - David HoltKneussel - Richard AllensonKramer - Richard O'RyanBerger - Peter MeakinExocetBrigadier Charles Ferguson - Peter JeffreyMajor Tony Villiers - Michael N HarbourGabriel Legrand - Moir LeslieHarry Fox - Peter AcreVictor Vronski - David BamberCol Raul Montera - William HopeJulio Garcia/Col Dwyer - Allan CordunerNikolai Belov - David MarchSgt Major Jackson - Eric AllanChief Supt Carver/General Leopoldo Galtieri - John ChurchAnna Marchuk - Melanie HudsonQueen Elizabeth II/Margaret Thatcher - Melinda WalkerProf Paul Bernard - Keith DrinkelMajor Langham/Major Espinet - Steve HodsonJournalist/Private Elliot - David Holt(c) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd