Episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20160131 | In a conversation with Nicholas Shakespeare, Graham Greene once named The Honorary Consul' as his favourite among all his novels, `..because the characters change and that is very difficult to do.` In this superbly tense story of political kidnap and sexual betrayal set at the beginning of Argentina's Dirty War in early 1970s, Greene's characters find themselves on a switchback ride of love, sacrifice and violence. Isolated Dr Eduardo Plarr, son of a missing political prisoner, is lured into collaborating with a defrocked priest in a kidnap plot, only to find the lives of two people he doesn't care for, suddenly in his hands. Meanwhile Charles Fortnum, the elderly and drunken Honorary Consul in a one-horse town near the Paraguayan border, faces his own terrors, and the loss of the young prostitute he has fallen in love with. Greene added: `For me the sinner and the saint can meet; there is no discontinuity, no ruptur |
| 02 | 20160207 | In this concluding episode, Plarr's attempts to help Charley get him death threats from the police. Not only is the state closing in on Plarr, but his own past too. In a conversation with Nicholas Shakespeare, Graham Greene once named The Honorary Consul' as his favourite among all his novels, `..because the characters change and that is very difficult to do.` In this superbly tense and violent story of political kidnap and sexual betrayal set at the beginning of the Dirty War in early 1970s Argentina, Greene's characters find themselves on a hellish journey. Isolated Dr Eduardo Plarr, son of a missing political prisoner, is lured into collaborating with a defrocked priest in a kidnap plot, only to find the lives of two people he doesn't care for, suddenly in his hands. And Charles Fortnum, the drunken Honorary Consul in a one-horse town near the Paraguayan border, faces his own terrors, and the loss of the young prostitute he has fallen in love with. Greene added: `For me the sinner and the saint can meet; there is no discontinuity, no ruptur |