Written by Richard Pitt with additional material by Bert Coules.
Murder mystery set in India in 1709. A young servant, Early Belt, accompanies a group of superstitious English merchants as they transport a vast wagon train of goods to Delhi. The w
Read more…Roger Davenport's down-at-heel detective Eddie Hamilton is in action again, hired to protect a Scottish landowner from a series of death threats.
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Read more…Eddie, an ex-private eye now eking out a living as a toy salesman, finds himself back in the old routine when an attractive lady comes asking him to trace her six-year-old daughter. What should be a reasonably straight, down-the-line case soon has
Read more…"Nothing goes away in this world any more. Nothing gets lost. If you don't want a record of it, then don't do it."
When police camera operator Leslie Burden receives a call from a former colleague concerning the disappearance of a young Polish woman
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Rumpole and the Dear Departed 3
Rumpole for the DefenceEpisode 1 of 6
Leo McKern reads John Mortimer's tales of the Old Bailey's hack, Horace Rumpole.
1: Rumpole and the Dear Departed
Rumpole is instructed to challenge a will ... unfortunat
Drama based on the best-selling novel by C.J. Sansom. In 1546, the court of Henry VIII is on the edge of anarchy as Catholic and Protestant factions vie for power. While heretics are burned at the stake, the Queen, Catherine Parr, rashly decides to w
Read more…Richard Osman's best-selling debut novel, read by Olivier-nominated Haydn Gwynne (Billy Elliot the Musical, Drop the Dead Donkey). Abridged by Sara Davies.
In a peaceful retirement village in Kent, four residents meet up once a week to investigate un
Read more…By Patricia Highsmith, adapted by Shaun McKenna.
1: Now that Robert Forester is living in Langley, Pennsylvania, he has escaped his oppressive wife and has no need to see a psychiatrist again. So why is he outside Jenny Theiroif 's house, watching
Read more…Abridged by Libby Spurrier
In 1910, Hungarian-born British novelist Baroness Orczy was responsible for a coming up with a female sleuth who, unlike her male opposite numbers, relied on brains rather than brawn to solve crime. Molly Robertson-Kirk
Read more…Irish writer Bill Murphy made his radio drama debut with the highly successful BBC Woman's Hour thriller 'Fractions of Zero'. An exciting detective story about the hunt for a serial killer obsessed with numbers, its hero is DS Sue Manson, grounded
Read more…The young man found on Putney Heath had his throat cut from ear to ear. It seems as if it could be suicide though it's not an easy way to kill yourself. But who is he, and if he did kill himself, what drove him to such a dreadful death? Sergeant Vo
Read more…A moderately unhappily married couple, and a girl fed up with looking after a sick mother - what on earth can a hit-man want with them?
Cast:
The Hitman......Leslie Grantham
Derek......Steve Hodson
Sandra......Francis Jeeta
Will Lavender......Keit
Read more…The Same River Twice
A serial thriller in eight parts by Edward Boyd with Gordon Jackson
The longer Johnny Maxen's search for his estranged wife goes on, the more mysterious her disappearance becomes, and now the police, in the person of Inspector Wa
21 Jan: The Saturday Play - Beware of the Trains
Based on stories by VL Whitechurch and M McD Bodkin. Written and directed by John Taylor. In the 1920s in a compartment of the Glasgow to London sleeping-car express, two men and a woman debate unsolve
Master of the Mint
Drama
By David Ashton. The creator of the Victorian detective series, McLevy, returns with a new hero in the unlikely guise of the 17th century scientific genius, Isaac Newton. After 30 years as a Cambridge academic, Newton takes u
Read more…Lethal Cocktails by Shelagh Stephenson Aunt Agatha arrives to solve the murder of an unpopular guest. Broadcast 5th Oct 1989 (Afternoon Play) 128/44; 50 MB sound quality is excellent apart from a couple minor defects near the middle that last a fe
Read more…Curtain Up!: The Ringer
Author: Edgar Wallace
Adapted By: Hugh Stewart
Adapted By: Archie Campbell
Pianist: Arthur Dulay
Producer: Archie Campbell
Detective-Inspector Bliss: Stanley Groome
Divisional Detective Inspector Wembury: Wensley Pithey
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THE HOUSE OF UNSPEAKABLE SECRETS
Ernest Dudley 's eight-part comedy-thriller with Leslie Phillips and Ian Thompson
In 8 parts
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Read more…Dramatised by Alan Downer
In August 1138, King Stephen is besieging rebels loyal to Empress Matilda in Shrewsbury Castle. Aline Siward enters King Stephen's camp to pledge loyalty, even though her brother Giles has sided with Matilda. The castle fa
A new thriller serial in six episodes by Edward Boyd
with David Ashton as Peter Calman
A small town in Galloway, on the South-west coast of Scotland. A cottage mysteriously unchanged since 1941. A dead nurse. And lawyer Peter Caiman with £1 million
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