The Last Castrato
by Anthony George
Directed by Nigel Bryant.
Broadcast 4th April 1991 - Afternoon Play
A psychic's visions draw an opera-obsessed desk sergeant into the search for a missing young singer.
With John Duttine as Jack, Kathryn Hurlbut
Hindenburg
By Christopher William Hill. Helen Ashbourne, a reclusive English former
photographer living in New York, is approached by gallery owner Josh, who
hopes to display her collection of photographs taken aboard the airship
Hindenburg. But
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MYSTERIES OF THE LONDON UNDERGROUND....1997
12 11 1997 1: `The Metropolitan Line Murder'. By Michael Butt: based on a story by Baroness Orczy. Only the strange man at the corner table in the ABC can solve the mystery of the terrible events that befe
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Billy Rucker
Created by Adam Baron
Here's a new private eye writer I've just discovered who bears watching: his name's Adam Baron, he's British, and he writes books (two, so far) about London private eye BILLY RUCKER. There's a nice bittersweet worl
Wasted Years - Philip Jackson Reads John Harvey's Novel
Philip Jackson reads John Harvey's crime novel, featuring his well-known creation, Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick. A series of brutal robberies takes Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick b
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Brother Cadfael is the fictional main character in a series of historical murder mysteries written by Edith Pargeter under the name "Ellis Peters". Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey during the 12th century. In a
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The Lost Mona Lisa
by R.A.Scotti
read by Nickolas Grace.
abridged by Penny Leicester
Producer: Duncan Minshull
Broadcast Monday 20 to Friday 24 April 2009 (Book Of The Week)
160/44; 80 MB total; sound quality excellent
R A Scotti reconstructs the
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Drama The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine "Black Mask". The story has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main character, Sam Spade, appears only in this novel and in thr
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Beware of the Trains by John Taylor
R4 Saturday Play - 2004-03-20
Some time in the 1920s in a compartment of the Glasgow to London sleeping-car express, two men and a woman fall into exchanging stories about strange railway crimes. But the travell
The Whole of the Moon
Legal drama serial by Colin MacDonald.
broadcast 29 Sept 03 Oct 2008 (Woman's Hour Drama)
From The Radio Times
The loss of a parent when they are just 50 is bound to be a shock, but for the bright, ambitious barrister at the h
This may not be a Whodunit, but most Whodunit addicts, myself included, are pushovers for Pulp Fiction too.
This is Pulp Fiction
New series produced for Radio 7 by Frank Stirling at Unique Productions.
Peter Marinker reads some of the best in classi
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The riveting story of a man immobilized in his apartment, observing the minutiae of life - and death - through his rear window. The basis for the Alfred Hitchcock movie “Rear Window”.
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Art of Deception
Detective drama by Philip Palmer. Notorious art forger Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now dying, agrees to help art critic Jessica Brown to write a book about forgery. So begins a game o
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Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, written in 1862. It was originally produced in three volumes along with a serialized magazine version and, later, a single volume edition.
Lady Audley's Secret follows Robert Audl
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Quentin Nickles
It was the year that saw the birth of Gracie Allen, Jack Dempsey, Buckminster Fuller and Busby Berkeley-- 1895. The same year that brought the death of John Wesley Hardin and Louis Pasteur. In Canada, John Diefenbaker was born and Qu
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The Mystery Project was produced by CBC Radio (Canada) to revive and reinvent half-hour radio mysteries - with original scripts, casts and scores. The series ran from 1992 until 2004. Each week, casual listeners get to puzzle through a fully dramatiz
The Mystery Project was produced by CBC Radio (Canada) to revive and reinvent half-hour radio mysteries - with original scripts, casts and scores. The series ran from 1992 until 2004. Each week, casual listeners get to puzzle through a fully dramatiz
