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24/05/2013

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Payback

Duration:
1 hour
First broadcast:
Saturday 22 January 2011

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.

Producer/Director Jonquil Panting.

Credits

Henry Kissinger
Henry Goodman
Richard Nixon
Peter Marinker
Golda Meir
Sara Kestelman
Simcha Dinitz
Kerry Shale
Al Haig
Kerry Shale
Anatoly Dobrynin
Ewan Bailey
James Schelsinger
Sam Dale
Jacob Javits
Sean Baker
Actor
Christine Kavanagh
Director
Jonquil Panting
Producer
Jonquil Panting

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