Radio 4 Extra

**** John Berger joins 4 Extra’s 100 Club, born 5th November 1926. He died in 2017 aged 90. In 1966, art critic and writer John Berger and Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, spent several months shadowing a GP in The Forest Of Dean. The resulting book published a year later, was A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor - a moving meditation on society, the doctor-patient relationship and how we value a life. Dramatised by Matthew Broughton The Writer .... Peter Marinker The Doctor .... Adrian Scarborough Miriam .... Barbara Flynn Harry .... Joe Sims Timid Woman .... Carys Eleri Black Haired Woman .... Scarlett Courtney With the voices of: Dorothy Burley, Kevin and Karen Wellham Anne Childs Robin Harris Recorded by the Reading the Forest project Director: John Norton A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.