🎙️ Afternoon Theatre — The Hidden Face

🕯️ A man pursued by the law, and haunted by a truth no one wishes to see.

📝 Synopsis
In The Hidden Face, Victor Canning crafts a taut psychological thriller built around one of the oldest injustices known to man: the false accusation.

Condemned for a crime he did not commit, a desperate man escapes custody and vanishes into the margins of society, pursued relentlessly by the authorities. But freedom is not his goal — vindication is. Each step of his flight draws him closer to a concealed conspiracy, where loyalties fracture, appearances deceive, and guilt wears many masks.

As he uncovers fragments of the truth, the listener is drawn into a tightening spiral of tension: every ally may be an enemy, every shelter a trap. The play unfolds as both a physical chase and a moral reckoning, asking whether justice can survive when truth itself is hidden behind fear, convenience, and silence.

🧠 Themes & Atmosphere
Wrongful conviction and moral courage
Identity, disguise, and hidden guilt
The loneliness of innocence in a hostile world
Suspicion, pursuit, and psychological tension

📻 Why It Belongs on Chesterton Radio
Victor Canning’s story echoes a deeply Chestertonian conviction: that the modern world is blind not because truth is invisible, but because it refuses to look. The Hidden Face is not merely a thriller, but a meditation on justice — and on the terrible ease with which society condemns without understanding.

This is classic BBC radio drama at its most compelling: economical, intense, and morally charged.
🎧 Perfect For
Late afternoon or evening listening
Fans of mystery and suspense drama
Listeners who enjoy noir without guns, and thrillers without cheap tricks

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“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
— G. K. Chesterton

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