Mission Control: Hannibal One by Len Deighton

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'Others had been here, but only for a few hours at a time. We were the first soldiers to come, and now it looked as if we would be the first men to wage war here. It was a bleak, barren, metallic landscape like none other I had ever seen...' A Roman commander faces an exceptional foe – as Hannibal leads his troops and more over the Alps. Roman history given a 20th century linguistic flavour. Written by Len Deighton. Read by Gabriel Woolf. Producer: Barbara Crowther First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1976.