Set in 1973.
Doctor Eva Hartley is leading a dig at an archaeological site in North West England.
The skull of a young man is found at the entrance to a burial chamber.
The problem is; one of the skull’s teeth has a filling.
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist
by Dario Fo ['Morte accidentale di un anarchico', 1970]
Adapted for radio by Jeremy Hardy
from the translation by Gillian Hanna
and from Gavin Richards' stage adaptation
Broadcast 3 July 1992 on BBC Radio 5
Rebroadcast o
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by Jaden Clark
AP-130517
128K
A bailiff, who's lost everything in his personal life goes to collect
on a female shoplifter and loses the one thing he didn't know he still
had in his possession. His heart. But in gaining his heart, is he also
p
Aberystwyth Noir - It Ain't Over till the Bearded Lady Sings
By Malcolm Pryce.
128K
Broadcast 5/15/2013
The night Mr Big Top was gunned down on the streets of Aberystwyth,
everyone knew who'd done it - the Druids - the same guys who built
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A Confidential Agent
by Nick McCarty
Broadcast 5 June 1986, Afternoon Play
80/44/mono; 32.7 MB; sound quality fair
Liz Parker is secretary to a small-time detective agency on the mean streets of Birmingham. Unasked, she decides to investigate th
Bitter Pill by Lisa Holdsworth
BBC Radio 4 - The Saturday Play - 2004-02-07
192K
A student at a University Fresher's disco dies after taking two ecstasy tablets and Detective Inspector Sarah Tully is shocked to find the source could be from the Unive
The Rivals
192/44 Uncut
Inspector Lestrade, made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories, introduces tales of Holmes's rivals.
BBC Radio 4
19 and 26 October and 2 and 9 November 2011 11:30 am - 12:00 midday
Episode 1/4 - The Murders in th
Cleft Stick
By R. D. Wingfield
Produced by David H. Godfrey
45 mins.
A woman returning home through the woods kills an attacker and asks her husband to help her cover it up to hide a secret. But things don't unfold as planned down at the station
The Teahouse Detective by Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy
BBC Radio 4: Afternoon Play
Among Orczy's detective characters is the 'Old Man in the Corner', who solved mysteries in thirty-eight stories, without leav
"Of course," said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to a pasticheur in 1923, "you cannot use my characters." Mr. Eustace has, with some ingenuity, added a further question to an average-quality murder mystery set in Victorian England. Is his amateur investig
Read more…The Dock Brief by John Mortimer
BBC Third Programme - 1957-05-16
128K
The pathetic comedy of an elderly unsuccessful barrister who finds himself picked out in a Dock Brief by an equally unsuccessful criminal as his counsel. Together the two disa
Before the Fact
by Frances Iles
Saturday Play 130420
128K
Emilia Fox, Ben Caplan and Patricia Hodge star in a dramatisation of
the novel that Alfred Hitchcock based his film, 'Suspicion' on.
Set in the early 1930s, Emilia Fox plays the part of Li
Lament For A Maker
by Michael Innes
SNT 31/12/88
128K
Inspector Appleby discovers the doom that shrouded the life of mad recluse, Ranald Guthrie, the laird of Erchany, who fell from the ramparts of his castle on a wild winter night, and al
Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
BBC Radio 4 - The Saturday Play - 2005-12-03
1875. Bad tempered Paris detective, Commissioner Gauche, is investigating the crime of the century. His investigation takes him on the maiden voyage of the Levia
The Tiger In The Smoke
by Margery Allingham
SNT 1984-02-25
112K
Jack Havoc, ex-army, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose on the streets of London once again. In the faded squares of shabby houses, in the furtive alleys and darkened pub
Read more…Murder In Melbourne
by Dulcie Gray
18-02-1961
BBC Home Service SNT
128K
The central character is Richard Quayle, a Qantas pilot whose many cultural observations include negative comments on Melbourne's drinking laws and 'country town atmosphere'.
Read more…Gentlemen, Murder is Served
by Derek Wilson
SNT 13th January 1990
160K
The setting is Paris, in the year 1895 where, amid the glamour of life in the naughty nineties, Captain Giles Danvers is looking for wine, women, and song. But instead, his old
