Starring Tim Blake Nelson (from the Coen Brothers' hit movie, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?") and Dominic Chianese ('Uncle Junior' in "The Sopranos"), this Friday play is a disturbing dramatisation of Budd Schulberg's classic boxing novel.

Recorded at Sound on Sound Studios, New York City, with a cast of Broadway actors, it was adapted by actor/writer Kerry Shale and directed by Andy Jordan. The style of the piece is classic film-noir - full of hard-boiled humour, period vernacular and a creeping sense of impending doom. "The Harder They Fall" is a larger than life story of greed, violence and lust, ripped straight from a period tabloid, brutal and unforgiving, rancid with racketeers.

DRAMA & COMEDY

Broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2005