The Enemy Below: The Night History Broke In
On Saturday evening, November 23, 1963, listeners across Britain turned on the BBC Home Service.
The world was still reeling from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy the previous day.
And that evening, Saturday-Night Theatre took listeners back to another time of uncertainty and death: the Battle of the Atlantic.
The Enemy Below, adapted from D. A. Rayner’s novel, is an extraordinary duel between two naval commanders—one aboard a British warship, the other commanding a German U-boat. They cannot see one another, yet through sonar, maneuver, deception and instinct, each gradually…
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