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Strangers On A Train (BBC-4)

Broadcast 25 Jan 1996, rpt 24 Apr 1997 from Radio 4¹s Cinema 100 season BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of a Patricia Highsmith novel twists an ordinary encounter between two strangers into a disquieting tale of obsession and peril. When two men meet on a

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Becker (CBC)

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Who says radio drama is dead? Every Saturday night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 's Radio One broadcasts The CBC Mystery Project every Saturday on CBC Radio and I have decided to tackle this Behemoth one show at a time. I have already done

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Murder Most Foul - 16 episodes

This was a BBC production [1991-1994] introduced and presented by Nick Ross a well known BBC broadcaster and journalist, and author of a number of books on the subject of crime. Best known as the presenter of the BBC's long running series 'Crimewatch

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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

This excellent BBC production starred Stephen Mackintosh, Maurice Denham and Kenneth Cranham.

It begins with one of the best opening lines in fiction, and ends with one of the best closing lines. In between, Greene reveals a seamy, dark underside to

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The Iceman

D.I. Burdett is used to death; he's seen it all on the London streets of 1860. But the murder of young women always shocks him. His current case of three murdered girls is offering no leads and the coroner can't tell him a thing other than they had t

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A Resistance to Pressure

Dr. Peter Lewis, head of an experimental heroin clinic, is kidnapped from a party to perform an operation on a woman who's had an accident in an explosion. The kidnappers threaten to kill him if he doesn't save her. When he says the only way she can

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Dr. Johnson (BBC)

Dr.Johnson Investigates by Richard Brayshaw Directed by Brian Miller Samuel Johnson and his friend James Boswell are at David Garrick's theatre when an actor is murdered on stage. originally aired as a one-off play on BBC R4, 02 Sept 1978 80/44/mo

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The Blue Lamp by Ted Willis

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The Blue Lamp 1962 (90min play)
by Ted Willis

BBC Home Service
128K


Broadcast Monday 24th December 1962 @ 8:30 p.m.

"The Blue Lamp" revolves around the confrontation of two worlds, two models of society: the stable and steady community of ordinary peop

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