By Patrick Hamilton, adapted by Annie Castledine
The secret of the upstairs floor will be revealed if only the riddle of the gaslights can be understood.
Cast:
Mrs Manningham.........Juliet Stevenson
Mr Manningham.........Roger Allam
Inspector
Read more…A reading of Not Dead, Only Resting, one of a series of novels featuring Simon Brett's actor/sleuth Charles Paris.
Read more…Publication of a biography of Charlotte Bronte sparks the threat of libel suit. So a detective heads to Yorkshire to discover more.
Steve Wakelam's drama is based on true events.
Sergeant Jack Down ..... Kenneth Cranham
Patrick Bronte ..... James Gree
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional de
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
Read more…2 stories
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…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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