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Agent X
By Joe Hayes
The Liberation of Paris 1944 - The last two British agents meet
up, and then talk about how all of the other SOE agents have
been captured or killed.
They send out a signal on their radio to contact any other agents
that might be left in Paris and get a response from the radio used
by Noor Inyat Kham without the security codes. Henri and
Francis were unaware that she has just been shot at a
concentration camp in Germany and that the person on the
other end is a German spy.
With everything at risk they decide to arrange to meet up with
who they think is Noor. The short drama ends with a German
voice greeting Francis the one of the two who lost the coin toss
sealing his fate.
The Radio Drama is based towards the end of
the war in Paris. At the start of the recording
the audience can just here running footsteps as
Henri is running down alleyways and ends up at
a safe house where Francis, the last British SOE
agent is also hiding out. Once Henri explains
what he’s been doing they decide to try and
contact more agents that might be hiding or on
the run.
Henri Dericourt
The Triple Agent
Born September 2, 1909 Coulonges-Cohan, Aisne, France
Service/branch Special Operations
Executive Years of service 1942–1945
Battles/wars World War II
Other work Pilot
In 1942 he worked of M19 agents before he came
to Britain where he was investigated by MI5 before
eventually being recruited by the SOE
He was in France in 1944 after being sent there to
organize a secret airplane landing site.
There is little known about his private life
Francis Suttill
Francis Suttill was born in Lille, France. His father, William
Francis Suttill, was from Machester, England while his
mother, Blanche Marie-Louise Degrave, was French. He was
educated in both England and France and he spoke French
fluently. Suttill was a barrister-at-law in civilian life. In 1935,
he married his wife Margaret from whom he had two
children.
When the war broke out, Suttill joined the British Army and
in 1942 he was recruited by the SOE to organize the
Physician/Prosper circuit in and around Paris. He parachuted
into France on the 20th of May.
In May 1940 he was commissioned into the East Surrey
Regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the
SOE, and after being trained during the summer of 1942,
Suttill was chosen to create a new resistance network in
northern France, based in Paris, with the operational name
Physician. His code name was Prosper and his assumed
identity was François Desprées.
Noor Inayat Khan
Nickname: Louise (also: La P'tite Anglaise)
Born: June 1921 Paris, France
Died: February 1945 (aged 23)
Was sent to a concentration camp in 1994
Raised in Britain and France and a descendant of
Indian royalty, bilingual Noor Inayat Khan was
recruited by the elite Special Operations Executive
(SOE) in 1942 to work in Paris as a radio operator.
Records from the national archives show she was the
first female wireless operator sent to Nazi-occupied
France during World War II.
Khan was a wartime British secret agent of Indian
descent who was the first female radio operator sent
into Nazi-occupied France by the Special Operations
Executive (SOE). She was arrested and eventually
executed by the Gestapo.
The beginning
Paris 1944, a man is running down alleyways and reaches
a bombed building. He moves a panel to gain access to
the door leading to a corridor where shattered glass that
brakes up below his feet.
From the rubble Francis appears and puts a gun to his
head shouting “Who goes there”. Henri realises he’s a
British solder and they start to plot an escape plan. They
then send out a signal on their radio to contact any other
agents that might be left and get a response from the
radio used by Noor Inyat Kham without the security
codes.
The middle of the story is about how the two
agents try contacting any other agents to see
who they can save from being captured but that
leads to one of the two guys being captured at
the meeting place because they believe they are
meeting a the British agent Noor Inayat Khan.
The ending of the drama is a cliff hanger where
the audience make their own mind up to what
actually happens due to how it isn’t explained.
All they know is that a German accent greets
Francis speaking German, the audience hears a
quick movement and a glass from a table
smashing on the floor.
I chose this drama because I am interested in
the history of the secret agents of WW2 and
how they came to there deaths. I want people
to know their story and to respect what they did
as well as respect their deaths.
Target audience
This Drama is aimed to appal to historians as well as the younger
generation who enjoy action dramas because they should know
the story of the British agents of WW2 if they have not been
educated about the bravery the agents showed.
The people represented in the Drama will be those solders who
worked for the British in second world war. This is why I the
target audience will be the British public, especially as the pride
of Britain is at a all time high these days mostly because of the
Olympics in 2012.
This is why I will make the drama sound as British as I can, i.e.
with national anthem related music.
Budget
Subject
Cost
Actors (2)
£50 each = £100
Studio staff
£50
Hiring studio
£100
Equipment cost
£50
Props
£20
Writers (me)
£0
Any Questions???