Foreign Bodies: The Martin Beck Killings
by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
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Dramatisation of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's 10-book series featuring detective Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National Police Homicide Department in Stockholm.
The Martin Beck Killings Episode 1 of 10
01. Roseanna
by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
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Roseanna is the first in the Martin Beck series, written over ten years from 1965 - 1975 by the husband and wife writing team of Maj Sj?wall and Per Wahl??. Featuring the intriguing, dogged, intuitive complex figure of Detective Inspector Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National Police Homicide Department in Stockholm, the books set a gold standard for all subsequent Scandinavian crime fiction, and for much of the best crime fiction in Britain and America written since the 1960s. The books have been admired and imitated by crime writers and readers ever since their publication; now Radio 4 offers audiences the opportunity to discover just why the books have been so acclaimed by those in the know.
The use of crime and police procedure to hold up a mirror to society and its most dysfunctional elements is commonplace now, but that's because Martin Beck paved the way for subsequent generations of European crime writers whose fallible heroes - Kurt Wallander, John Rebus etc. - make the best fist they can of their own lives whilst trying to tackle the violence around them.
The books were written deliberately to give an unsentimental, realistic portrait of Sweden in the mid-sixties: not the liberal place it was thought to be, but a society suffering from a stifling bureaucracy and a creeping rottenness behind the surface sheen. Confronting the dark side of this society are stubborn, logical, anti-social Detective Inspector Martin Beck, his closest friend Detective Inspector Lennart Kollberg - overweight, hedonistic, opinionated; Detective Inspector Frederick Melander, with a memory like a card-index file and a noxious pipe clamped in his jaws, and their colleagues in the murder squad.
In Roseanna, they are faced with the body of an unknown girl found in a canal dredger. The long investigation ends with a risky and frightening sting.
Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth
Original music by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Sara Davies.
Cast
Martin Beck - Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg - Neil Pearson
Ahlberg - Jonathan Tafler
Kafka - Garrick Hagan
Bengtsson - John Mackay
Inga Beck - Lucy Black
Sonja Hansson - Susie Riddell
Police Doctor - Patrick Brennan
Mulvaney - Harry Livingstone
Miss Peterson - Amaka Okafor
Siv Lindberg - Amaka Okafor
Colonel - Robert Blythe
Miss Gota -Jenny Harrold
Doctor - Christine Absalom
Director - Sara Davies
Writer - Jennifer Howarth
Writer - Maj Sjowall
Writer - Per Wahloo
First broadcast BBC R4 Saturday Drama - Foreign Bodies Series The Martin Beck Killings Series: Saturday 27 October 2012
74 Mins
The Martin Beck Killings Episode 2 of 10
02. THE MAN WHO WENT UP IN SMOKE
by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
Dramatised for radio by Katie Hims
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Having just arrived on a beautiful, remote island for his much-needed Summer break with his wife and young children, Detective Inspector Beck is summoned back to Stockholm, where he is sent on a seemingly pointless and unofficial mission to Budapest, in search of a missing journalist. It is only when Beck has pretty much given up on the case that the truth finally emerges.
Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Mary Peate.
Credits:
Martin Beck - Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg - Neil Pearson
Gunnarsson - Justin Salinger
Ari Boeck - Georgia Groome
Szluka - Patrick Brennan
Frobe - Joe Sims
Inga Beck - Lucy Black
Molin - Robert Blythe
Foreign Office Man - Sam Alexander
Embassy Man - Harry Livingstone
Frau Boeck - Christine Absalom
Steffi - Amaka Okafor
Radeberger - Don Gilet
Gun Kollberg - Sally Orrock
Narrator 1 - Lesley Sharp
Narrator 2 - Nicholas Gleaves
Director - Mary Peate
Writer - Maj Sjowall
Writer - Per Wahloo
Writer - Katie Hims
First broadcast BBC R4 Saturday Drama - Foreign Bodies - The Martin Beck Killings - 03 Nov 2012
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Duration: 74 Mins
The Martin Beck Killings Episode 3 of 10
03. The Man on the Balcony
by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
Dramatised for radio by Katie Hims
128K - Stereo
Someone is assaulting and killing young girls in the parks of Stockholm. With only a brutal mugger and a three year-old boy for witnesses, the investigation is stalling. It's only a tiny detail surfacing in Beck's mind that puts the murder squad on the trail of the killer, but will they get him before he strikes again?
The Martin Beck Series, by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. 3/10. The Man on the Balcony: Someone is assaulting and killing young girls in the parks of Stockholm. Beck investigates
Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Mary Peate.
Credits:
Martin Beck - Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg - Neil Pearson
Gunvald Larsson - Ralph Ineson
Frederik Melander - Adrian Scarborough
Karin Carlsson - Beth Goddard
Lena Oskarsson - Katie Angelou
Ingrid Oskarsson - Susie Riddell
Bo Oskarsson - Greta Dudgeon
Mrs Andersson - Christine Absalom
Wilheim Engstrom - Patrick Brennan
Officer Kvant - Sam Alexander
Doctor - Sam Alexander
Officer Kristiansson - Don Gilet
Ingemund Fransson - Robert Blythe
Lundgren - Joe Sims
Kvist - Harry Livingstone
Lisbeth - Amaka Okafor
Girl - Kellie Shirley
Narrator 1 - Lesley Sharp
Narrator 2 - Nicholas Gleaves
Director - Mary Peate
Writer - Maj Sjowall
Writer - Per Wahloo
Writer - Katie Hims
First broadcast BBC R4 Saturday Drama - Foreign Bodies - The Martin Beck Killings - 10 Nov 2012
Duration: 58 Mins
The Martin Beck Killings 04 of 10
04. The Laughing Policeman
By Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
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In the fourth of the Martin Beck Killings, Beck is now a Detective Superintendant. But his promotion hasn't made him any more cheerful; if anything, it's only confirmed his gloomy belief that the best way to solve crimes is by hard slog, dogged persistence, a grimly realistic view of human nature - and the occasional flash of sheer intuition. His team of colleagues, headed by Lennart Kollberg and Frederick Melander, are used to his stubborn ways and his frequent colds. His wife Inga isn't as tolerant.
The Laughing Policeman begins on the evening of a big demonstration in Stockholm against the Vietnam war; as the police are dealing with protesters outside the American embassy, a mass shooting on a bus in a suburb ends with nine dead, including one of Martin Beck's team. The trail to find the murderer leads Beck back to an unsolved case from the past that had puzzled the Swedish police for years.
Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth
Original Music by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Sara Davies.
Credits:
Martin Beck - Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg - Neil Pearson
Frederick Melander - Adrian Scarborough
Inga Beck - Lucy Black
Ingrid Beck - Lauren Crace
Einar Ronn - Russell Boulter
Asa Torell - Clare Corbett
Schwerin - Robert Blythe
Gun Kollberg - Sally Orrock
Mechanic - Sam Alexander
Blonde Malin - Christine Absalom
Workman - Harry Livingstone
Birgersson - Jonathan Tafler
Car Showroom Manager - Robert Blythe
Forsberg - Patrick Brennan
Director - Sara Davies
Writer - Maj Sjowall
Writer - Per Wahloo
Writer - Jennifer Howarth
First broadcast BBC R4 Saturday Drama - Foreign Bodies - The Martin Beck Killings - 17 Nov 2012
Duration: 58 Mins
The Martin Beck Killings 05 of 10
05. The Fire Engine That Disappeared
By Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
Translated by Joan Tate
Dramatised by Katie Hims
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The apartment of a suspect being staked out by Gunvald Larsson explodes, killing three people. Arson and murder isn't at first suspected - much to Larsson's fury - but when it becomes clear that the fire was started on purpose, the case hinges on the needle-in-a-haystack chance of finding a man who fits an impossibly vague description who was somewhere in the area around the time of the fire.
Credits:
Martin Beck - Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg - Neil Pearson
Larsson - Ralph Ineson
Ronn - Russel Boulter
Gun Kollberg - Sally Orrock
Nadja - Christine Absalom
Mansson - Stuart McQuarrie
Zachrisson - Joe Sims
Stromgren - Harry Livingstone
Hammar - Patrick Brennan
Hjelm - Robert Blythe
Skacke - Sam Alexander
Mrs Borg - Susie Riddell
Ingrid Beck - Lauren Crace
Doris Martensen - Keely Beresford
Mats - Greta Dudgeon
Narrator 1 - Lesley Sharp
Narrator 2 - Nicholas Gleaves
Producer - Mary Peate
Writer - Maj Sjowall
Writer - Per Wahloo
Writer - Katie Hims
Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Mary Peate.
First broadcast BBC R4 Saturday Drama - Foreign Bodies - The Martin Beck Killings - 24 Nov 2012
Duration: 58 Mins
Martin Beck 6
Murder at the Savoy
by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
Translated by Amy and Ken Knoespel
Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth.
Steven Mackintosh as Martin Beck and Neil Pearson as Lennart Kollberg return for a second series of the Swedish detective stories that inspired a generation of crime writers.
The Martin Beck books were written over ten years from 1965-75 by the Swedish husband and wife team of Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö. They featured the dogged and complex figure of D.I. Martin Beck and his colleagues in the national Police Homicide Department in Stockholm, and were written to give a realistic, unsentimental portrait of Sweden at the time: a society suffering from stifling bureaucracy and the creeping corruption of a liberal society.
In Murder at the Savoy, Martin Beck and Lennart Kollberg are called to Malmö in Southern Sweden when an industrialist is shot whilst having dinner at the city's best hotel. There are people in high places who want the case cleared up quietly and quickly, but Beck refuses to give way to pressure.
Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell Directed by Sara Davies.
- Narrator
- Lesley Sharp
- Narrator
- Nicholas Gleaves
- Martin Beck
- Steven Mackintosh
- Lennart Kollberg
- Neil Pearson
- Gunvald Larsson
- Ralph Ineson
- Per Mansson
- Tom Mannion
- Zachrisson
- Joe Sims
- Asa Torell
- Clare Corbett
- Malm
- Nicholas Murchie
- Edvarsson
- Will Howard
- Mats Linder
- Paul Mundell
- Charlotte Palmgren
- Philippa Stanton
- Bertil Svensson
- Rick Warden
- Sara Moberg
- Joanna Brookes
- Sister
- Carolyn Pickles
- Gun Kollberg
- Sally Orrock
- Helena Hansson
- Hannah Wood
- Broberg
- Michael Shelford
- Victor Palmgren
- Robert Blythe
- Writer
- Maj Sjowall
- Writer
- Per Wahloo
- Adaptor Jennifer Howarth
- The Martin Beck Killings 7
- The Abominable Man
By Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
Translator Thomas Teal
Dramatised by Katie Hims
Steven Mackintosh and Neil Pearson return as Martin Beck and Lennart
Kollberg in the Swedish detective series that inspired a generation of
crime writers.
In The Abominable Man, Martin Beck is called in to work in the middle
of the night to see the butchered body of a senior policeman. He begins
to investigate, dogged by a sense that catastrophe is imminent and once
again, his instinct is correct.
Original music by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Mary Peate
Studio Managers: Caleb Knightley; Graham Harper, Mike Etherden; Martha
Littlehailes; Alison Craig
Production Coordinators: Jenny Mendez and Hannah Robins.
Credits
Narrator.....Lesley Sharp
Narrator.....Nicholas Gleaves
Martin Beck.....Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg.....Neil Pearson
Gunvald Larsson.....Ralph Ineson
Einar Ronn.....Wayne Foskett
Frederik Melander.....Adrian Scarborough
Malm.....Nicholas Murchie
Hult.....Sean Baker
Mrs Nyman.....Christine Absalom
Stefan Nyman.....Matthew Watson
Bodil.....Greta Dudgeon
Mrs Eriksson.....Dinah Stabb
Mr Eriksson.....John Rowe
Kvant.....Sam Alexander
Kristiansson.....Don Gilet
The Rump.....Robert Blythe
Doctor.....Michael Shelford
Bohlin.....Rick Warden
Man 1.....Ben Crowe
Man 2.....David Seddon
Woman in the Records Department.....Joanna Brookes
Official 1.....Paul Stonehouse - The Locked Room
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The Martin Beck Killings Episode 8 of 10
by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
Translated by Paul Britten Austin
Dramatised by Katie Hims
Steven Mackintosh and Neil Pearson star as Martin Beck and Lennart
Kollberg in the Swedish detective series that inspired a generation of
crime writers.
The Locked Room. On his return to work after recuperating from a bullet
wound in the chest, Martin Beck's first case is a conundrum: the body
of a man who has been shot dead is discovered in a sealed room, but
there is is no gun. Meanwhile, Kollberg and Larsson are on the trail of
a pair of bank robbers.
Original music by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Mary Peate
Studio Managers: Caleb Knightley, Graham Harper, Mike Etherden, Alison
Craig.
Credits
Narrator.....Lesley Sharp
Narrator.....Nicholas Gleaves
Martin Beck.....Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg.....Neil Pearson
Gunvald Larsson.....Ralph Ineson
Einar Ronn.....Wayne Foskett
Bulldozer Olsson.....Michael Maloney
Malm.....Nicholas Murchie
Sten.....Rick Warden
Police Commissioner.....Rick Warden
Mauritzon.....Ewan Bailey
Ake.....Ben Crowe
Manager.....Ben Crowe
Doctor.....Ben Crowe
Monita.....Philippa Stanton
Clerk.....Joanna Brookes
Insurance Woman.....Joanna Brookes
Pathologist.....Hannah Wood
Ingela.....Hannah Wood
Gustavsson.....David Seddon
Rhea.....Nadine Marshall
Zachrisson.....Joe Sims
Hjelm.....Robert Blythe
Warehouse Man - Old.....Robert Blythe
Warehouse Man - Young.....Matthew Watson
Detective Sergeant.....Matthew Watson - Martin Beck 9 - Cop Killer
by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Translated by Thomas Teal
Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth
The murder of a woman in a small village outside Malm– in Southern
Sweden wouldn't normally warrant the attentions of Detective Inspector
Martin Beck and his team. But this woman lived next door to a man who
has already killed once, and the press are taking a lot of interest in
the case. Beck and Kollberg aren't getting anywhere when a teenage
shootout between two teenage boys and the police not far away starts a
series of events that eventually leads them to the killer, and sets the
seal on a significant decision for Lennart Kollberg.
Original Music by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Sara Davies.
Credits
Narrator.....Lesley Sharp
Narrator.....Nicholas Gleaves
Martin Beck.....Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kolberg.....Neil Pearson
Gunvald Larsson.....Ralph Ineson
Hergot Allwright.....Howard Coggins
Einar Ronn.....Wayne Foskett
Malm.....Nicholas Murchie
Folke Bengtsson.....John Mackay
Bertil Mard.....Kenneth Collard
Caspar.....Fraser Burrows
Christen.....Will Howard
The Breadman.....Paul Mundell
Clark Sundstrom.....Ben Crowe
Maggie.....Jenny Harrold
Mrs Sundstrom.....Philippa Stanton
Sigbrit Mard.....Joanna Brookes
Radio Reporter.....Will Glennon
Actor.....Sara Davies - Martin Beck10 - The Terrorists
by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
translated by Joan Tate
dramatised by Katie Hims
Martin Beck reluctantly takes on a security operation set up to protect
a controversial American Senator from a terrorist attack whilst he is
in Sweden on an official visit. Meanwhile, a young woman is accused of
bank robbery.
Original music by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Mary Peate.
Credits
Narrator.....Lesley Sharp
Narrator.....Nicholas Gleaves
Martin Beck.....Steven Mackintosh
Kollberg.....Neil Pearson
Larsson.....Ralph Ineson
Einar Ronn.....Wayne Foskett
Frederik Melander.....Adrian Scarborough
Skacke.....Sam Alexander
Rhea.....Nadine Marshall
Crasher.....Robert Blythe
Bulldozer Olsson.....Michael Maloney
Rebecka Lind.....Hannah Wood
Malm.....Nicholas Murchie
Mr Bondesson.....Ben Crowe
Eric Moller.....Ben Crowe
American Senator.....Ben Crowe
National Police Commissioner.....Rick Warden
Taxi Driver.....Rick Warden
Kristiansson.....Don Gilet
Court Official.....Matthew Watson
Policeman.....Matthew Watson
Heydt.....Alex Lanipekun
Airforce Commander.....Paul Stonehouse
Judge.....John Rowe
Prime Minister.....John Rowe
Kirsten.....Joanna Brooks
Mrs Cosgrove.....Joanna Brooks
Neighbour.....Joanna Brooks
Levallois.....David Seddon
Kvastmo.....David Seddon
Ruth Salmonsson.....Philippa Stanton
Gun Kollberg.....Sally Orrock
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Thanks for putting these up. I thought I had them all, but I was missing Fire Engine and Abominable.
I came across this series many years ago when they came out in English-language paperbacks, but haven't seen anything about them since.
You are always welcome Mike, Enjoy! -------------------------------------- R
Thank you for all this info and No.6 which I seemed not to have captured.
Paul Hudson
Aaaagh! This is where it all begin re. brilliant Nordic lit. Cheers muchly, Rick. This is one series well worth getting your teeth (false, or otherwise) into. One happy little Aussie.
Thanks, Rick..I've enjoyed every one of the Martin Beck Series!
Thanks for keeping us up to date with the new episodes, Rick!
#9 - Cop Killer is posted. Link above
Number 10 of 10 - The Terrorists is posted. ------------------------- R
Thank you!
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