num_pages: 3
description: Graham Greene's masterly thriller, set in the mean streets of 1930s' Brighton, centres on Pinkie - the Boy - a sadistic teenage gangleader desperate to escape the brutal poverty of his childhood and driven by a calculating ambition that will stop at nothing - not even murder. But the death of a lonely journalist is the start of a fateful spiral of events. He lures the innocent Rose into his spell aware that she is the only person who can testify against him; but he is not prepared for the hedonistic and justice-seeking Ida who takes up the challenge of bringing about Pinkie's downfall.This dramatisation by Ken Whitmore for BBC Radio 47 features Stephen Mackintosh, Claire Skinner, Kate Williams, Kenneth Cranham and Maurice Denham.
language: English
title: Brighton Rock
titlecomplete: Brighton Rock
characters: Phil Corkery, Rose, Colleoni, Ida Arnold, Pinkie Brown, Fred Hale
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Crime, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 31062
places: Brighton, England
publisher: BBC Audio