Exploring the contradictory feelings aroused by travelling, Stephen Poliakoff's television play shows the journey of a publisher on the Ostend-Vienna express to a book fair in Linz. Tautly scripted and edited, the drama is largely a conversation piece between Peter (Michael Kitchen) and the irritable Viennese lady Frau Messner (Peggy Ashcroft).
Characteristically, Poliakoff bal...
