Mission Control: Hannibal One by Len Deighton

'Others had been here, but only for a few hours at a time. We were the first soldiers to come, and now it looked as if we would be the first men to wage war here. It was a bleak, barren, metallic landscape like none other I had ever seen...'

A Roman commander faces an exceptional foe – as Hannibal leads his troops and more over the Alps.

Roman history given a 20th century linguistic flavour.

Written by Len Deighton.

Read by Gabriel Woolf.

Producer: Barbara Crowther

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1976.