Anyone looking to let off some steam is bound to find something to love in Cabin Pressure. The combination of snappy repartee and brilliant voice-acting makes this a side-achingly funny experience from start to finish.
Cabin Pressure is a radio sitc
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Three original murder mysteries featuring Bangalore detective Uma Rao
Actor, writer and director Mahesh Dattani is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India’s National Academy of Letters. Included here are all
BBC radio productions of the first four bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels from Sara Paretsky – plus a short story featuring the hardboiled PI, read by Buffy Davis
One of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction, Chicago private eye V.
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An unsettling collection of full-cast dramas from the long-running BBC Radio 4 horror series.
Throughout five series between 1988-1997, Edward de Souza was The Man in Black, a sinister raconteur who introduced a weekly half hour of terror and suspens
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Ten full-cast BBC Radio thrillers by Berkely Mather
Berkely Mather (real name John Evan Weston-Davies) was a British author who wrote sixteen novels ranging from historical adventures to espionage fiction. A prolific writer for television and radio,
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Like his actor namesake, Ronald Coleman is a suave, well-spoken English gentleman. But although he’s a movie buff, Coleman is no film star – he’s a copper, and a Detective Inspector to boot. Together with his down-to-earth Scottish partner, DS Fred A
Thespian sleuth Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - especially in the form of women and alcohol. Estranged from his long-suffering wife, Frances, his personal life is shambolic, and as an ac
By: Peter Turnbull All 18 episodes of the police procedural featuring the Glasw
A BBC Radio 4 crime drama about a Merseyside mum-turned-private eye
Single mum Rosie Monaghan is 39 and redundant. Wondering what to do with the rest of her life – and with two kids to support – she decides to start a new career as a private detectiv
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Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries,
This collection includes:
Cover Her Face
P. D. James' debut novel, introducing her famous detective Adam Dalgliesh. Starring Robin Ellis as Dalgliesh.
A Taste for Death
D
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All four radio series of Robert Barr’s gripping London-based police drama.
Originally broadcast as Detective: Stories of Crime and Detection in London, this BBC radio drama ran for four series between 1980 and 1985. Written by the award-winning creat
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Andrew Sachs stars as G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric, whose unlikely methods make him one of the great heroes of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unworldly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless genial
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It is the 1980s, and Stamford Holmes is still living in the shadow of his famous grandfather. Languidly living on Sherlock's fortune, he reluctantly agrees to do some work as a consulting detective - if only to provide 'Doctor' Watson with material f
The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, H
Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her journalisti
All four series of Lynne Truss's comedy thrillers set in 1950s Brighton - plus Christmas special
Brighton, 1957: a sunny seaside resort with a sinister underbelly. This den of villainy is policed by the touchingly innocent Inspector Steine, who nai
Edgar Wallace was a bestselling author, journalist, playwright and film director, and the creator of King Kong. A prolific writer and celebrity superstar, he was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all new books read in Britain by the late 192
A collection of strange and fantastical tales from Algernon Blackwood, plus bonus documentaries
Described by H P Lovecraft as 'the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere', Algernon Blackwood (CBE) was the acclaimed and prolific au
A new form of radar picks up sentient life – except on a nearby hilltop crowned with a circle of stones. Martin Jarvis and Patricia Gallimore star in Stewart Farrar’s sci-fi serial
Researchers develop a system than can detect sentient life. But some
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