NPR Playhouse - Raffles - Whodunit (Mystery, Crime & Detectives)

NPR Playhouse was a series of radio dramas from National Public Radio. The series was a successor to the NPR series Earplay and was discontinued in September 2002

Arthur J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung, who, between 1898 and 1909, wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about him and his fictional chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders.

Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes – he is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the "professors" – professional criminals from the lower classes.

Raffles_01_The Ides of March.mp3

Raffles_02_Gentlemen and Players.mp3

Raffles_03_Willfull Murder.mp3

Raffles_04_The Chest of Silver.mp3

Raffles_05_The Rest Cure.mp3

Raffles_06_The Criminologist Club.mp3

Raffles_07_The Shield of Philip High.mp3

Raffles_08_A Bad Night.mp3

Raffles_09_A Trap to Catch a Craftsman.mp3

Raffles_10_Gift of the Emperor.mp3

Thanks for this Robert.

Raffles is a BBC Radio program and it must've been licensed by NPR I guess. There were 3 series in total and each had half a dozen episodes. If memory serves it was actually originally commissioned by the World Service.

There was also a one off follow up called "The Return Of Raffles".

I spent 6 weeks at a youth hostel in New York in 1994, which was on Amsterdam Avenue. The environment was completely safe but it overlooked the "projects", which we were advised not to go into after it got dark (this was the actual advice pinned on the noticeboard in the hostel itself). This was before the internet and numerous BBC audiobooks, in those days the only playback was home recordings and the very select few books that were on tape. Over the time I was there, BBC WS played a lot of these, along with episodes of Dad's Army. I will always remember sitting on the patio around 2am overlooking the playgrounds, and watching drug deals openly going down, whilst listening to Bunny & AJ :)

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David Knight January 10, 2019 at 2:16pm

Thanks for this Robert.

Raffles is a BBC Radio program and it must've been licensed by NPR I guess. There were 3 series in total and each had half a dozen episodes. If memory serves it was actually originally commissioned by the World Service.

There was also a one off follow up called "The Return Of Raffles".

I spent 6 weeks at a youth hostel in New York in 1994, which was on Amsterdam Avenue. The environment was completely safe but it overlooked the "projects", which we were advised not to go into after it got dark (this was the actual advice pinned on the noticeboard in the hostel itself). This was before the internet and numerous BBC audiobooks, in those days the only playback was home recordings and the very select few books that were on tape. Over the time I was there, BBC WS played a lot of these, along with episodes of Dad's Army. I will always remember sitting on the patio around 2am overlooking the playgrounds, and watching drug deals openly going down, whilst listening to Bunny & AJ :)
Robert Flood January 10, 2019 at 7:36am

Dear Robert,

Thanks for placing these on offer. I enjoy them very much

Bob
David Holman January 6, 2019 at 3:34pm

These look good Robert,thank you!

David
Lawrence Valley January 5, 2019 at 7:58pm

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semoshorts January 5, 2019 at 5:02pm

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