Dramatisation by Katie Hims of the comic children's detective novel by Erich Kaestner.
Country boy Emil Tischbein, up from Neustadt for the first time, enlists the aid of hundreds of Berlin street boys to help him catch a thief.
Emil ...... Joshua Sw
Read more…Grace Monroe goes undercover as a live-in nanny at the home of Ben Curtis whose wife Lydia has been missing for a year. Making herself indispensable in the intimacy of the family home, Grace hunts for clues as to what befell the mother of two. It’s a
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Bill Nighy stars as the actor-cum-amateur sleuth in Jeremy Front's series based on Simon Brett's stories. Charles finds himself at the Edinburgh Festival & murder is centre stage.
Charles is doing a one man play and Frances is directing him. But the
Read more…In 4 parts
Based on the comedy-thriller by Georgette Heyer. Dramatised in four parts by Peter Buckman. An English country Christmas in the thirties, a Tudor manor house decked with holly, a family gathered for seasonal cheer - and a murder.
Director:
A one-off crime drama from the pen of Paul Temple creator, Francis Durbridge.
Is a crime writer using his apparent breakdown and plotlines to mask an actual murder?
Superintendent Victor Wade receives a call from an old colleague, Charles Milford,
Read more…A daring, amoral female crook pits her wits against a top policeman stuck in an unhappy marriage. Romantic intrigue is inevitable.
Starring Philip Glenister and Angela Wynter.
Caroline Gawn’s entertaining, stylish detective story, with a definite twi
Read more…Lord Willis discovers that neighbours of his are in great trouble. involved in an extraordinary drama that makes headlines in the world's press.
1: Who Goes Home?
MP Mark Ritchie is on the run - tailed by MI5, but who else is chasing him?
2: Death
Read more…Test Room Eight - Concerned that someone is trying to sabotage the production of his new influenza vaccine, millionaire industrialist Herbert Truscott hires Odell and Heather to go undercover at his state-of-the-art facility at Barton Medworth. They
Read more…By Peter Whalley
This 1982 behind-the-scenes whodunit is set on a much loved Northern TV soap opera.
The cast and crew of ‘Alexandra Road’ are set to start shooting their 3,009th episode. But new boss, Sam Richardson, tells series producer Mike Spil
Read more…Thackeray
BBC Radio 4
First broadcast: Thu 14th Dec 1995, 14:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM
By Olwyn Wymark and Barbara Clegg. Jim Thackeray is a renowned landscape gardener. He is also a first-class private detective. When a murder takes place in the Shakesp
Read more…Based on the real life memoirs of James McLevy, a Victorian, Edinburgh Police Detective.
Read more…Stars Hercule Poirot in an adaptation of a short story from 1955. The detective is trying to solve the murder of a woman shot on
Bonfire Night, and the play had previously gone unnoticed due to it being mislabelled as Murder in the Men’s.
Contributo
Read more…By Israel Zangwill, dramatised by Robert Messik
The Big Bow Mystery, written in 1891, is the first locked room mystery novel ever published. The story begins with landlady Mrs Drabdump hammering on Inspector Grodman's door -- she's hysterical: she
Read more…Murder on the Leviathan
By Boris Akunin
Directed and dramatised by John Dryden
1875. Bad tempered Paris detective, Commissioner Gauche, is investigating the crime of the century. His investigation takes him on the maiden voyage of the Leviathan, th
Read more…Five Victorian mysteries by Wilkie Collins, dramatised by John Arden.
Mr Policeman and the Cook
PC Brady has an astonishing deathbed confession to make.
Cast:
Wilkie Collins...Ronald Pickup
PC Brady... Jon Quinn
Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman
Three inter-linking plays revolving around a mysterious death, an ecological 'accident', big business and an environmental campaigner with a personality disorder.
A man comes into the office looking for Dee, as the journalist who three years previou
Read more…By Patrick Hamilton, adapted by Annie Castledine
The secret of the upstairs floor will be revealed if only the riddle of the gaslights can be understood.
Cast:
Mrs Manningham.........Juliet Stevenson
Mr Manningham.........Roger Allam
Inspector
Read more…A reading of Not Dead, Only Resting, one of a series of novels featuring Simon Brett's actor/sleuth Charles Paris.
Read more…Publication of a biography of Charlotte Bronte sparks the threat of libel suit. So a detective heads to Yorkshire to discover more.
Steve Wakelam's drama is based on true events.
Sergeant Jack Down ..... Kenneth Cranham
Patrick Bronte ..... James Gree
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional de
