The Great Escape is a 1954 Australian radio serial by Morris West based on the novel by Paul Brickhill produced by Gordon Grimsdale.
Grimsdale and West also did radio adaptations of Brickhill's books The Dam Busters and Reach for the Sky.
[4] The Sydney Daily Telegraph said " it develops a pace and a tenseness that are rarely heard in a radio production.
"[5] The Brisbane Telegraph called it "a really grand contribution to local radio.
No pseudo heroics or passions- upon which so many of commercial r«.dio thrill spinners depend — just a drama so simply told and enacted as to make the throat achg with pity at the courage and the foolishness of men.