Payback

by Jonathan Myerson, Henry Goodman (Narrator), Peter Marinker (Narrator)

6th October 1973. Golda Meir has become Prime Minister of Israel in her seventies. Syrian and Egyptian troops are massing on Israel's borders, but despite eleven warnings of impending war in the past month, the Israeli cabinet have not called up the reserve. In Florida, Richard Nixon awaits the final verdict of the Washington Appeal court on his objections to surrendering the Watergate Tapes. In New York, Henry Kissinger is about to be woken at his room in the Waldorf Astoria, with news of a new Middle East War. Jonathan Myerson's drama investigates how domestic and international politics were about to combine, to change the Middle East forever.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 22 January 2011.

1 pages, Audible Audio

Published August 17, 2011

About the author

Jonathan Myerson is an author, playwright, and screenwriter, writing principally for television and radio with his writing partner Julie Myerson. Until 2018 he was Director of the MA in Creative Writing at City University, London.

Meyerson has written for film, stage, TV, radio and animation. His first play was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company, and he has since written stage plays for the fringe, rep and the National Theatre. As a screenwriter, he wrote the films "Mallory" and "The Taming of the Shrew." He has also written episodes for TV series such as "The Bill," "Eastenders," and "Holby City."

Myerson is a frequent contributor to The Guardian, where he also wrote a column about his experiences as a Labour Councillor in Lambeth. His first novel, "Noise," was published in 1998. His second novel, "Your Father," was published in 2000.