Pierre Boule. Osmidílná četba na pokračování.
Čte Anton Lesser.
Natočilo BBC v roce 2010. Premiéra 5. – 14. 4. 2010 (BBC Radio 7; jednotlivé díly 26 – 29 min., celkem 3:40 hod.).
Obsah dílů : Episode 1 The story of Burma’s real PoW colonel – Philip Toosey. Anton Lesser reads his granddaughter Julie Summers‘ biography. – Episode 2 After Singapore’s fall, Philip Toosey is confronted by appalling prison camp conditions. – Episode 3 Toosey’s men are forced to move camp and begin building railway bridges for the Japanese. – Episode 4 Dismayed Philip Toosey is forced to establish an allied hospital prison camp. – Episode 5 Toosey improves the camp’s sanitary conditions, but is brutalised by Japanese guards. – Episode 6 Philip Toosey and his men suffer Japanese brutality and air raids from allied bombers. – Episode 7 After the Japanese surrender, Philip Toosey oversees his men’s journey home. – Episode 8 Philip Toosey’s war efforts are recognised by royalty and a former high-ranking adversary.
Pozn.: The Colonel of The Bridge on the River Kwai is a novel by Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English translation by Xan Fielding in 1954. The story is fictional but uses the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942-43, as its historical setting. The novel deals with the plight of World War II British prisoners of war forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to build a bridge for the „Death Railway“, so named because of the large number of prisoners and conscripts who died during its construction. The novel won France’s Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1952.