Charles Paris
A reading of Not Dead, Only Resting, one of a series of novels featuring Simon Brett's actor/sleuth Charles Paris.
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BBC Saturday Play - Death at the Bed End
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
Agatha Christie Audio Narrations
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
Early Belt and the Present by Richard Pitt
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…SPH- Handwoven Underwater
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.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kj591ci4prbq1pj/1991-01-05_-_SPH_-_Handwoven_Underwater.mp3/file
Read more…Eddie and Miss Simpson by Roger Davenport
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…The Haunted Road by Eoin McNamee
"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…Rumple For the Defence (BBC reading 1997)
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
BBC Shardlake - Lamentation
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…BBC Book at Bedtime - The Thursday Murder Club
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…The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
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…Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy
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…DS Sue Manson by Bill Murphy
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…Body on the Heath by Bill Lyons
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…Will and Testament by Bill Lyons
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…BBC Serial 1966 - The Same River Twice
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
Saturday Play - Beware of the Trains
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
BBC Saturday Play - Master of the Mint Drama
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
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…BBC Curtain Up - The Ringer from 1951
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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