The Black Cat Murder Mystery, or Nostrovia Fitzrovia (BBC)

Posted by Riklaa on July 7, 2008 at 10:02am

The Black Cat Murder Mystery, or Nostrovia Fitzrovia By Marcy Kahan With Stephen Mangan, Jason Chan, Kerry Shale, Helen Longworth, Richenda Carey, John Rowe, Ellen Thomas and Ian Masters. Director and Producer: Marion Nancarrow Broadcast 3 May 2008, BBC World Service (Worldplay) A new Worldplay season on the theme of mystery features work from broadcasters in America, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK. BBC World Service's contribution to the season, The Black Cat Murder Mystery, is a comic murder mystery set in an apartment block in Fitzrovia: a cosmopolitan London neighbourhood a step away from the BBC's Broadcasting House. There's a corpse in flat six; a mysterious hermit in flat 12; a cognitive neuroscientist looking for love in flat three; a Russian businessman in flat 11; a Japanese bassoonist in flat eight; a seductive blonde in flat five; and an extremely unusual detective. Marcy Kahan's plays for the World Service include the science-fiction comedy The Uncertainty Principle; the award-winning play Drop Dead Gorgeous; Object Of Insane Desire, a satire on consumerist obsession; and Marvellous - one of the plays that made up BBC World Service's 2007 Picture A Play project. 128/44, mono-encoded as stereo; 52 MB; encoded from Listen Again

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  • Paul Hudson July 27, 2012 at 3:18am

    Gone for this as it is a great title. Thanks

  • Frank Hablawi June 29, 2012 at 7:29am

    This was excellent! Thanks!

  • AK May 31, 2012 at 8:30am

    What a fun radio mystery -  many thanks for sharing Rick!

    AK

    • Riklaa > AK May 31, 2012 at 1:05pm

      Glad you liked it.  Thanks for the Thanks.  ---------------  Rick

  • Reuben Bright May 23, 2012 at 10:36am

    more Kahan here

    https://timespast.ning.com/group/ClassicContemporaryDrama/forum/topi...

     

    • Paul Hudson > Reuben Bright August 4, 2012 at 5:39am

      Just been on a visit thanks for the shares- Media fire playing up though.

  • Reuben Bright May 21, 2012 at 8:55pm

    Thanks !!!  - Somehow I also overlooked this one - Marcy Kahan is great !

    • Riklaa > Reuben Bright May 21, 2012 at 9:51pm

      You are all welcome, truly a great selection.  ---------------------------------------------------------------  Rick

  • Gayle Crane May 21, 2012 at 8:30pm

    Looks like a good one, Rick.     Thanks!!

  • Bruce Carl Aronson May 21, 2012 at 12:08pm

    Knew nothing about the writer or her work. Marcy is brilliant at capturing the world from a perspective you will not expect. No matter how clever you are at anticipating a mystery writer's outcomes, I double-dog-dare you to outguess this one!

    BCA

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