The Guns of Navarone

By: Alistair MacLean

Narrated by: Toby Stephens

It is 1943. Two huge German guns in the grim, impregnable fortress on a huge beautiful island off the coast of Turkey are having a devastating impact on Allied shipping and preventing the evacuation of hard-pressed British troops from the nearby island of Kheros. The Germans are poised to overrun and unless the guns can be put out of action within a matter of days, a thousand men will die.

All previous attempts to attack the fortress of Navarone have failed. It is time for one last desperate throw of the dice. And so a select Subversive Operations commando unit, led by the famous pre-war mountaineer Captain Keith Mallory, launches a daring and very possibly suicidal raid.

This BBC Radio 2 dramatisation, starring Toby Stephens and Michael Williams, brings to exhilarating life one of the greatest adventure stories of World War II.

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Excellent story!

Alistair MacLean did a wonderful job of writing a very entertaining story (so reliable of him - thank goodness!). And this dramatization was greatly entertaining to listen to! I particularly liked that it didn't veer from the written story.

I really enjoyed the movie version - even tho it varied from the book. My main complaint with the movie was that I didn't think there needed to be any extra drama between Mallory & Andreas ... being in a war and carrying out this mission was dramatic enough.

My thanks to the cast & producers for bringing this story to us. Your efforts are much appreciated!

Readers digest version

Story choppy. Readers digest version. Not worth it. Great book. Lousy audible story Wait for better version