Where A Wall Once Stood

by Nick Fisher

With Douglas Hodge and Britta Gartner. Director: Marion Nancarrow. Originally broadcast 5 Nov 1999, repeated on BBC7 5 May 2004. When successful businessman James Arden goes missing, his distraught wife is determined to find him, despite a lack of clues. A darkly disturbing story of bluff and counter-bluff, set against the backdrop of a post- Communist Berlin.

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First published January 1, 1999

About the author

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Nick Fisher was a British scriptwriter, journalist and angler. In the 1990s he was an agony uncle for teenage magazines and wrote books on sex education. He wrote radio plays for the BBC and won a BAFTA award in 2006 for his work on The Giblet Boys, and was a scriptwriter for major TV drama series including Holby City. He also had expertise in angling, and presented the Channel 4 series Screaming Reels. With TV cook and food activist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, he won the André Simon Memorial book award in 2007 for The River Cottage Fish Book. He appeared with Fearnley-Whittingstall on River Cottage: Gone Fishing.

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From BBC radio 4:
A missing husband, a severed hand with a wedding ring, and extreme political activists in post-Wall Berlin. What kind of ominous mystery connects them? Stars Douglas Hodge.