BBC R4 - Peter Whalley's 'The Maroon Cortina'
Directed by Philip Martin
Broadcast October 27, 1984
Coded from tape at 88/22
A young woman is murdered and several
people come under suspicion.
The key to resolution turns out to be
a maroon Cortina.
Cast
Don
The story of a young woman working as an assistant to the internationally renowned Home Office pathologist, Mr Hardcastle, during the dark days of 1942 in wartime London. Based on the true story of Molly Lefebure, as described in her book, “Murder On
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Paul Temple was serialized in the Evening News, here are 3 full stories.
Included is Durbridge's short story, "Light Fingers". This is a 'spot-the-clue' edition, with the solution.
Mediafire link is in the attachment
The Perfume of the Woman in Black by Gaston Leroux,1999
....rather like a French Sherlock Holmes....you know the sort of thing, where the detective shakes hands with someone and says: "You are a wealthy man who's fallen on hard times, and a regular
The Weather for Murder by Philip Levene With Marie Ney and Barbara Couper 60 minutes Broadcast 18 April 1962 on the Light Programme repeated 15 Sept 1962, 24 June 1963, and 28 Dec 1966 Mysterious circumstances surround a deadly fire that's been dec
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Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (Part 1)
A two-part case for John Mortimer's barrister involving a man arrested on suspicion of terrorism. With Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Christopher Benjamin and Lily Bevan
Truth Makes All Things Plain
L
Willit and Scrope
by Mike Walker
Directed by Christopher Venning
Afternoon Theatre, 26 January 1979
80/44/mono; 30.9 MB; sound quality fair
The start, from which a short bit might be missing,
has rough sound for about 10 seconds
Why has the grave
1 - The Religious Body
Synopsis:
Sister Anne has been thrown down the cellar stairs, and Inspector Sloan wonders who in God's name would want to murder a cloistered nun? Sloan's task is complicated by the unusual witnesses - 50-plus discreet, identical
Here are Francis Durbridge's Tim Frazer audiobooks, as always, expertly read by Anthony Head.
The World Of Tim Frazer CD1 ~ http://ge.tt/5IAixaK
The World Of Tim Frazer CD2 ~ http://ge.tt/7O1UzaK
Tim Frazer Gets The Message CD1 ~ http://ge.tt/2cN
Read more…Starring the brilliant Alison Steadman as investigative journalist DT Mitchell.
30 minutes x 6 part mystery drama. BBC Radio 4.
I've not dated this, but I'd have taped it back in the late 80s & early 90s. I definitely remember it was on in the cri
Read more…Honey West: Murder On Mars
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Honey West is adapted by Elaine Lee from her mini-series "Murder on Mars" and features characters from the Honey West novels by G. G. Fickling (and television series starring Anne Francis).
The Story
It's 1962 and
The Great Chocolate Murders
By John Fletcher.
BBC Radio 4 - The Saturday Play - 2006-03-04
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When people start falling ill in 19th century Brighton, everyone thinks it's an attack of cholera caused by the lack of proper sewers. Little do the
Dr Joe Aston is a forensic psychologist, working in the controversial field of recovered memory, on attachment to the police in Teeside. This is a short run series that originally aired on BBC Radio Four. The broadcast dates I've attached to the file
Read more…Almost all of Colin Watson’s novels are based in the fictional town of Flaxborough, the location of which is always left vague. If forced to guess its position, from the evidence in the books, I would have said Norfolk, but Watson apparently worked i
Read more…Nestor Burma
Nickname - Dynamite Burma
Created by Léo Malet
Gender Male
Occupation Private detective
Nationality French
Nestor Burma is a fictional character created by French crime novelist Léo Malet. In the series of crime novels
Trueman And Riley - Series 3
by Brian B Thompson
BBC7 and BB4 Extra
Ignoring all evidence to the contrary, underachieving detectives Trueman and Riley still hope for a return to the front line of policing.
Featuring
Trueman - Robert Daws
Riley
Mind's Eye - Paranormal Detective Drama Series - BBC Radio
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When Psychotherapists, Lorcan and Aoife Molloy are called in to help a series of unusually distressed patients, they disc
Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters
From BBC Radio 4 Extra. Written by Ellis Peters; Full-cast dramatisation starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael, with Michael Kitchen and Susannah York; Dramatised by Bert Coules.
It is 1141. In Shrewsbury, civi
