How Many Miles to Basra

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Southern Iraq, April 2003. Four soldiers, a journalist and their Iraqi translator set off on an unauthorised journey deep into the Iraqi countryside in a disastrous attempt to make amends for the deaths of some local men at a vehicle checkpoint. Developed from Teevan'shighly acclaimed BBC Radio 3 play, How Many Miles to Basra is a superb examination of how definitions of truth and responsibility become blurred in times of war - not just in the armed forces and political arena, but in the media too. How Many Miles to Basra was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (Leeds) in September 2006.

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"as stark, shocking and terrifying as anything I've heard" The Observer (on the Radio 3 broadcast)

Author Bio

Colin Teevan has written a number of plays and translations, many of which are published by Oberon. His quintet of plays, Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane, described as "like a quiet lethal explosion somewhere in the very heart of you" by the Guardian, was recently seen at London's Trafalgar Studios.