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Incident at Echo Six

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Incident at Echo Six
Written byTroy Kennedy Martin
StarringBarry Foster
Tony Garnett
Original release
Release9 December 1958 (9 December 1958)[1]

Incident at Echo Six is a 1958 British TV play set during the Cyprus Emergency (1955-1959). It starred Barry Foster and Tony Garnett. It was the TV debut of writer Troy Kennedy Martin who had done his national service in Cyprus.[2] It led to Martin joining the BBC script department. According to the TV Brain website, the play no longer exists in the archives.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Radio Times listing - retrieved 13 January 2024
  2. ^ Jonathan Stubbs, ‘Always ready to explode into violence!’ Representing the Cyprus Emergency and decolonization in The High Bright Sun (1965) Journal of European Popular Culture Vol 6 Issue 2 2015
  3. ^ TV Brain entry - retrieved 13 January 2024

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