Drama on 3: The Go-Between

A new adaptation of L.P. Hartley's story of a boy who is betrayed by a sophisticated young rich woman and her farmer lover who use him to ferry letters back and forth in the blazing summer of 1900 - with Richard Griffiths and Harriet Walter. On re-reading the book adaptor Frances Byrnes found within it another drama perfect for radio in which an old man finds a boyhood diary and is forced to unlock the trauma inside. Re-visited by that summer for the first time since it happened, the older man (Richard Griffiths) turns detective. Leo, in his 60s, finds a locked diary in his attic: it was written in 1900, the last time he lived with any sense of possibility. Leo realises that his tidy life has been a living death and that summer was to blame. Cast: Richard Griffiths, Harriet Walter, Lydia Leonard, Joseph Arkley, Blake Ritson, Josef Lindsay and Oscar Kennedy