Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Stef Penney's tale of love, mystery and murder set in 1860s Canada.
First broadcast in 10 daily episodes in Woman's Hour Drama
BBC Radio 4, Monday 15th to Friday 26th October 2007
Repeated BBC Radio 7, Monday 28th Feb
A BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama murder mystery written by the late Mark Tavener and set in a fictional Cambridge college in crisis. Series 1 in 6 episodes
Read more…These amusing stories star Kenneth Cranham.
"Dover was obese, lazy, unhygienic (the only man in the Metropolitan Police service with underarm dandruff) and bordering on corrupt. MacGregor was keen, clean and ferociously ambitious. However, on the rar
Read more…By Ronald Frame.
In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars threatens the local economy.
Allan Pinkerton ...... Forbes Masson
Joan Pinkerton ...... Rachel
A Caribbean Mystery - BBC Radio Drama
by Agatha Christie
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As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in p
Offbeat thriller by Alastair Jessiman. Police call in a psychic to help find a missing woman. Thomas Soutar is adept at solving crimes – but is his extraordinary gift a blessing or a curse?
The Sensitive - 1-6 The Sensitive 128kbps
Read more…1/4. Havanna Blue. Dramatised by Jennifer Howarth.
Lt Mario Conde awakes on New Year's Day, 1989, to a terrible hangover and an even less desirable case - the disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklaturaan,
Read more…As part of their monthly podcast, Ellery Queen mystery magazine has undertaken to feature dramatizations of the Dr. Hawthorne puzzlers by Edward D, Hoch. Hoch, is, of course, the dean of the mystery short story.
I've uploaded the stories in a single
Read more…Based on the novel by Ivy Litvinov. When Arkady Pavlov is found murdered the District Procurater is called in to investigate. All of the evidence points in one direction, but he still has his doubts.
Not a brilliant quality I'm afraid!
Read more…The Blotting Book First broadcast 2003-07-26. First repeated 2004-10-23. A savage murder in genteel Edwardian Brighton uncovers a tangled web of uncontrolled passions lies and deceptions. By E F Benson (1908) Defence counsel....Sam Kelly Figgi
Read more…BBC R4 - Mike Harris' 'An Old Fashioned Villain'
Directed by Matthew Walters
Broadcast April 11, 1992
Terry Oldham is all set for celebrity status on his release from prison, but have the long years inside made him stir-crazy?
Written by Mike Harris.
The Adventures of Tintin – Adventures of Tintin – The BBC produced two Tintin radio series in 1992 and 1993 starring Richard Pearce as Tintin and Andrew Sachs as Snowy. Captain Haddock was played by Leo McKern in Series One and Lionel Jeffries in S
Read more…Uma Rao is the daughter-in-law of Bangalore’s deputy commissioner of police. Her husband is a superintendent. The writer Mahesh Dattani is one of the most respected of Indian playwrights.
Uma Rao 1 - Seven Circles Around the Fire
When she starts res
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On The Waterfront by Budd Schulberg. It's fifty years since the cameras first rolled on this classic story of love, corruption and courage on the New York waterfront. An outstanding American cast stars in this anniversary production, specially reco
Twenty-six years have passed since the death of Jane Austen. Armed with a lock of Austen's hair as perhaps her best clue, Anne Sharp, former governess to the Austen family and Jane's close friend, has decided at last to tell her story-a story of fami
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens
Dramatised in five parts by David Buck
from Dicken's 1870 novel, as completed by Leon Garfield in 1980.
160/44; 195 MB; sound quality excellent
Classic Serial, 2nd to 30th March 1990
Who killed Edwin Dro
Dramatised by Neville Teller from Ethel Lina White's novel "The Wheel Spins."
It is the late 1930s and the forthcoming world war casts its shadow across Europe. Iris Carr is travelling alone on the continent, having visited a remote mid-European c
Rebus: Set in Darkness
by Ian Rankin [published in 2000]
Dramatised in 2 parts by Chris Dolan
160/44; 132 MB total; sound quality excellent.
A crime thriller centred on the building of the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1998.
Classic Serial:
