The Rivals returns - Series 3

Posted by JakeTucker on December 31, 2014 at 1:50pm

Radio 4 aired the first episode of series three of The Rivals today.

I have uploaded it to the The Rivals Onedrive folder which also has the 8 episodes that make up series 1 and 2.

The BBC website has info on episodes 1, 2 and 3 of this third series. I've posted the info below and have added it to the info txt file in the Onedrive folder.

The actor who played Lestrade in the first series, James Fleet, returns for this third series. For the second series Lestrade was played by Tim Piggot-Smith.

Onedrive The Rivals folder

The Rivals
Series Three
Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Now he is writing his memories and has a chance to get his own back,
with tales of Holmes' rivals.

BBC Radio 4
31 December 2014 and 7, 14 and 21 January 2015
Duration: 30 minutes

Episode 1/4 - The Knight's Cross Signal Problem
By Ernest Bramah
Dramatised By Chris Harrald
Directed by Liz Webb

Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Now he is writing his memoirs and has a chance to get his own back, with
tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with blind detective Max Carrados
as they try to discover who caused a horrific train crash at Knights Cross
where the driver of the train swears the light was green and the signalman
swears the light was red.

Lestrade . . . . . James Fleet
Max Carrados . . . . . Pip Torrens
Parkinson . . . . . David Acton
Lucy . . . . . Roslyn Hill
Carrick . . . . . Ian Conningham
Hoskins . . . . . Ben Crowe
Hutchins . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw
Miss Chubb . . . . . Jane Slavin
Mead . . . . . Sean Mason
Drishna . . . . . Saikat Ahamed

Episode 2/4 - A Snapshot
Based on a short story by M. McDonnell Bodkin
Dramatised by Chris Harrald
Directed by Liz Webb

Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Now he is writing his memoirs and has a chance to get his own back, with
tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with private detective and keen gardener
Paul Beck as they question the apparently watertight evidence against Squire
Clement Gore in a fatal shooting.

Lestrade . . . . . James Fleet
Paul Beck . . . . . Adrian Scarborough
Margaret . . . . . Hannah Genesius
Maisie . . . . . Bettrys Jones
Gore . . . . . Paul Heath
Carmondy . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw

Episode 3/4 - Seven, Seven, Seven - City
Based on a short story by Julius Chambers
Dramatised by Chris Harrald
Directed by Liz Webb

Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Now he is writing his memoirs and has a chance to get his own back, with
tales of Holmes' rivals. He starts with gifted amateur sleuth Mrs Edith
Marchmont, trying to stop a murder plot overheard on a crossed telephone line.

Lestrade . . . . . James Fleet
Edith Marchmont . . . . . Marcia Warren
Helena . . . . . Liza Sadovy
James . . . . . Ian Conningham
Ambrose . . . . . David Acton
Reilly . . . . . Stephen Hogan

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  • Chimp April 16, 2015 at 4:55am
    These are very enjoyable, particularly the Max Carrados episode. Thanks for sharing them!
  • abby January 24, 2015 at 6:18pm

    Thank you!

  • JakeTucker January 21, 2015 at 11:16am

    I've just uploaded the final episode of series 4, The Moabite Cipher, to the Onedrive The Rivals folder.

    • Anson (Bob) Roberts > JakeTucker January 21, 2015 at 6:56pm

      This was the least satisfying of the four tales. The annoying error in the name of the detective was compounded by the adaptation into a totally different storyline.

      Read the original (linked above in Jake's description) to see what I mean.

    • Magersfontein > JakeTucker January 21, 2015 at 4:16pm

      Capital! Thanks again, Jake.

      Roger

  • codepop January 18, 2015 at 6:54pm

    Cheers!

  • JakeTucker January 14, 2015 at 4:54pm

    I have just uploaded episode 3, Seven, Seven, Seven - City, to the Onedrive folder for all The Rivals episodes.

    Here's the info for the final episode next week.

    Episode 4/4 - The Moabite Cipher
    Based on a short story by R. Austin Freeman
    Dramatised by Chris Harrald
    Directed by Liz Webb

    Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
    Now he is writing his memoirs and has a chance to get his own back, with tales
    of Holmes' rivals. He continues with Dr James Thorndike as they try to protect
    Pastor Wayne Kaplan after he receives death threats, despite Lestrade's and
    James' aversions to Kaplan's charismatic preaching and healing.

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