A Town Like Alice States it was shown as part of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre". In 1997 a six-part radio version of "A Town Like Alice" was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 starring Jason Connery, Becky Hindley, Bernard Hepton and Virginia McKenna who had starred as the novel's heroine, Jean Paget, in the 1956 movie version. It was dramatised by Moya O'Shea, produced by Tracey Neale and David Blount and directed by David Blount. It won a Sony Award in 1998. A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice (United States title: "The Legacy") is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in
Thieves Like Us (novel) Thieves Like Us (novel) Thieves Like Us was the second and last published novel written by Edward Anderson (1905–1969). It was published in 1937 by Frederick A. Stokes. See: "Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s" by Robert Polito (editor), The Library of America (1997). Anderson later sold the movie rights for $500. The first film version (black-and-white) produced by RKO Radio Pictures was called "They Live by Night". It had a delayed premiere in 1950. Directed by Nicholas Ray (his first major directorial effort) and starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell, it was one of the classic