Black Betty by Walter Mosley

Dramatised by Bonnie Greer

American Noir Season - 2 of 3

BBC Radio 4 - 1997-03-01


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On the dark side of the mean streets of Los Angeles in 1961, African-American private eye Easy Rawlins can go places a white detective cannot.

With Martin Luther King in the news, a young new president in the White House, and a case that sends him in search of his own past, Easy finds death under the stones he is paid to turn.

Ezekial "Easy" Rawlins ........... Clarke Peters
Saul Lynx ....................... John Guerrasio
Elizabeth "Black Betty" Eady ..... Alibe Parsons
Maudria Jones .................. Sharon D Clarke
Odell Jones .......................... Dean Hill
Sarah Cain ......................... Kate Harper
Gwendolin Barnes ................. Cecilia Noble
Arthur Hawkes .................. Gerard McDermot

With William Roberts, Peter de Jersey, Mel Taylor, Major Wiley, Stephen Thorne, Sean Baker, Robert Harper, Shirley Dixon, Emil Nava and Christina Chou.

Directed by Ned Chaillet

If anyone has any other shows from this BBC series (American Noir), please post.  Meanwhile I am searching for them also

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  • Thanks again for sharing some of the best.

    Bob

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