Colder than of late
by Ken Whitmore
SNT 1976-18-12
64K
An Artist, a painting, a cold snap and a snowfall all make for an excursion into mystery and murder.
With:
Judith Barker
Russell Dixon
John Franklyn-Robbins
Directed by Alfr
A Full Account
By John Kirkmorris
SNT 1981-25-07
Jeffry Wickham/Sheila Grant/John Hollis
64K
A FULL ACCOUNT is set on a rural estate, where the squire is found shot dead in the woods. It's both a mystery and an examination of personal relations
A Taste of Proof
by Bill Knox
SNT 1974-03-08
With Paul Kermack/Robert Trotter
Sound is Fair @128K
A DIC Thane and Inspector Moss Mystery
With one man already in jail and another on the wanted list, the safe raiding at Glen Ault whiskey liqueur wa
Read more…"Leave It To The Hangman" (A Chief Insprector Thane and Det. Insp. Moss mystery)
by Bill Knox
First Broadcast 18.1.1964 at 2030
Starring Duncan McIntyre, John Young, Bryden Murdoch"
192K
A uniformed officer was shot by a father and son, both men'
LOOK TO THE LADY
Jarrolds, January 1931
(*published as The Gyrth Chalice Mystery)
Albert Campion #3
Adapted for radio by Felix Felton and Susan Ashman
First Broadcast 27 May 1961, BBC Radio 4
The Gyrth family have guarded the Chalice for centur
Three Act Tragedy
by Agatha Christie
08.07.02
128/44
5-part Mystery
A tray of cocktails is passed at a party in the clifftop deco mansion of Sir Charles Cartwright, the famous actor of the London stage. In addition to his old friends, Hercule Poir
Home At Seven
By: R.C. Sherriff
First broadcast 1966-12-03. BBC "Home Service"
SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE
192K
David Preston, a timid middle-class bank clerk living in the London suburbs, loses twenty-four hours in his life, and during the time he was
Malice At Autumn's End
by John Hyatt
7 Feb 1970
80K
A scared woman in a Church sets the stage for a tale of murder and betrayal involving a priest's murky past, a retired policeman's vendetta, and a local coven. Can newly-minted Inspector Hegel un
Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters (A Brother Cadfael Mystery)
224K
When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow i
Read more…The Dying Art of Letter Writing
By Trevor Hoyle [published in Pennine Magazine, May 1983]
Read by Joyce Gibbs
Produced by Philip Martin
First broadcast 1st July 1991, Morning Story
Rebroadcast 9 Feb 2012, Radio 4 Extra
Malcolm wants to sell the
DEAD MAN'S BAY
By P. M. Hubbard
Home Service,
26 Feb 1966
With Hector Ross, Cecile Chevreau, Nigel Graham, Noel Howlett; directed by Martyn C. Webster.
192K and 128K - You decide which you like best.
I cannot find a synopsis of this play by PM Hub
Read more…Any Other Business
By George Ross & Campbell Singer, adapted for radio by David Tanner
1960-24-12
192K - 85 minutes.
Starring Judy Parfitt, Brian Kent, William Avenall, David Crosse, Ronald Magill and Ross Hutchinson.
Broadcast on the Home Service
Read more…Haven't heard this yet,but i think it belongs here!?
Read more…The Late Edwina Black
By William Dinner and W. Morum
1950-01-07 BBC-SNT
192K
The domineering Edwina Black has just died, and the general feeling appears to be of relief rather than grief. The local community whispers that her death is a disguised
Libel
by Edward Wooll
Starring:
James McKechnie
Norman Shelley
Donald Wolfi
30-12-50 SNT-BBC
128K
This play is quite well done and chronicles a libel case supposing that one man took another's identity upon his escape from a German POW camp and
Read more…BBC R4 - Josephine Tey's 'A Shilling For Candles'
Freely adapted by John Fletcher from Tey's 1936 novel
Directed by Tabitha Potts
Broadcast December 5, 1998
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Thanks to Usenet
A much disliked film actress is found
dead in the surf
Carrington, V.C.
by Dorothy & Campbell Christie
"Home Service
23.2.1957/2135
Howard Marion-Crawford/David Enders
Listed as Lost by suttonelms
128K
Major Charles 'Copper' Carrington, who has had a distinguished World War II record and was awarded th
Peter Cornish - Deal With Murder
BBC Home Service: Saturday Night Theatre
Broadcast: Saturday 9th May 1964
Before heading out to meet her fiancé, Lynn Harker, a young portrait painter, receives a death threat over the phone from an unknown
This is a classic whodunnit by the BBC set on board a sleeper train,where a murderer is searching for an agent among a disparate group of passengers.
Read more…The House Of The Seven Flies
by Victor Canning [1952]
adapted by Kenneth Owen
with James McKechnie and John Hollis
produced by R.D.Smith
broadcast on the Home Service, 14 Jan 1961 (Saturday Night Theatre)
When a passenger named Sluiter dies on bo
