Doctor Johnson Investigates (CBC & BBC).
Doctor Johnson Investigates (CBC & BBC). First 3 episodes were in the CBC Mystery Project
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The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries
From 1993, a short series of comic mysteries investigated by the Elizabethan darmatist
Read more…Bucket and The Whited Sepuchre by James Hendrie
A comedy crime thriller by Oscar-winning writer James Hendrie, based around a detective who first appeared in Dickens's `Bleak House'.
Inspector Bucket, a sort of Victorian Columbo, has an unusual approach to solving the crime of a murderous, p
Read more…Saturday Night Theatre "Death and the Dancing Footman" 27/12/86
An adaptation of Ngaio Marsh 's whodunnit, featuring detective Roderick Alleyn.
Jonathan Royal is a man rich enough to indulge his somewhat extravagant sense of the theatrical. But when he hits on the bizarre idea of throwing a weekend party with gu
SNT THE HIGHER THEY FLY 21/08/65
A thriller set aboard a commercial aeroplane that is forced to make repairs in flight or face a crash-landing.
Read more…Lucky 13 by Peter Simpkin
London. 1980s. The provenance of a 're-badged' Jaguar XJS leads a journalist and his car dealer pal into violent confrontation with a brutal criminal gang.
The 'good guys' are surprisingly callous at times.
Cast
Denis Rogers.........Mark Jon
Read more…Deep Station Emerald By Joe Turner
Deep Station Emerald By Joe Turner; Performed by a full cast:
Maureen Beattie as Rossi
Tom Georgeson as Kettle
Danny Webb as Capt. Harris
Ricky Tomlinson as O'Connor
4 Parts - Approx. 2 Hours [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 4
Broadcast: 1996
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Thrilling Stories Of The Railway
Thrilling Stories Of The Railway
Five short crime stories featuring amateur sleuth and railway expert Thorpe Hazell. Fiction's first speciality detective Thorpe Hazell uses his locomotive expertise to solve the audacious and ingenious crimes plagui
Micheal Flynn (CBC Mystery Project)
Michael Flynn Another popular series from The CBC Mystery Project is Flynn, a 13 episode run from the mid-1990's. In this one, MICHAEL FLYNN is a part-time private detective living on his boat in Vancouver. A drop-out from UBC Law School , he now li
Read more…Bonaventure by Charlotte Hastings
By Charlotte Hastings, adapted by Peggy Wells
The villagers of Denzil St. David near Norwich will not forget that night in February 1947. The unusually high tides were battering at the sea walls and the countryside was threatened with severe floo
Read more…Send for Paul Temple 1940
Bernard Braden stars in an original 1940 full-cast production of the very first Paul Temple adventure. Between 1938 and 1968 the exploits of amateur detective Paul Temple and his wife, Steve, enthralled generations of BBC radio listeners. Theirs was
Read more…Recipe For Murder (CBC)
Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic
Marjorie Westbury
By Heron Carvic, adapted for radio by Betty Lambda
When Miss Seeton walks out of a performance of Carmen and witnesses a stabbing, all she can recall is a shadowy figure. But how could even she have guessed that her latest dra
Read more…Ordeal by Innocence written by Agatha Christie
Ordeal by Innocence
by Agatha Christie
Dramatised in 3 parts by Joy Wilkinson
160K - Total 97 mg - 3 mp3 file and 1 txt file
First broadcast: Mondays, 17 to 31 March 2014, 11:30
Along with Crooked House, Ordeal by Innocence was Agatha Christie's favour
Intent to Deceive by Michael Robson
By Michael Robson
When Eva is killed by a hit-and-run driver, her brother Gregory is under suspicion. Not only does he deny being involved, he also denies that the body is that of his sister.
Cast:
Gregory Wilderspin.........Nigel Anthony
Chief
Miss Marple's Final Cases by Agatha Christie
By Agatha Christie, dramatised by Joy Wilkinson.
1.3: Tape-Measure Murder
Gossip spreads through St Mary Mead, with a husband under suspicion of murdering his wife, and Miss Marple is called to provide an alibi.
Cast:
Miss Marple.........June W
Read more…Behind the Screen by The Detection Club
Behind The Screen is a collaborative detective serial written by members of the Detection Club. It was first broadcast in six weekly instalments on the BBC National Programme in 1930, with each contributor reading his (or her) own part of the stor
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