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 DericourtThe 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.

Nickname: Louise (also: La P'tite Anglaise)Born: June 1921 Paris, FranceDied: 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.

Noor Inayat Khan

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???