Wilkie Collins' dark tale of passion, deception and murder, dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Part 1: The callow Allan Armadale unexpectedly inherits a substantial estate in Norfolk, bringing him to the attention of the beautiful and dangerous fortune-
Read more…Murder Every Monday Mark Gatiss' adaptation of Pamela Branch's comedy. Asterisk Club founder Clifford Flush hasn't murdered anyone for years, but when the urge comes on him to bump off his bridge partner, he and the rest of the Club are forced to l
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Read more…Series based on Baroness Orczy's "Old Man in the Corner" mystery stories
Read more…Rumpole and The Right To Privacy by John Mortimer
BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Play - 2006-07-26
128K
Rumpole leaves the Old Bailey to defend a civil case.
The editor of a local newspaper is accused of breaching
a successful businessman's right to pr
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by John Mortimer
The Monday Play, 18 Oct 1982, Radio 4
A high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
Specially commissioned by t
The Secret Parts by Eve Brook dramatised by David Edgar With Celia Imrie, Nathaniel Parker and Frances Barber Director: Jonquil Panting First broadcast 20000529 (bank holiday Afternoon Play) When she finds the body of one of her colleagues lying in
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Rumpole Episode 1 of 2
Duration: 45 minutes
First broadcast: Thursday 20 March 2014
By John Mortimer
Adapted by Richard Stoneman
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
We rejoin Rumpole and Hilda in 1964. Hilda is worried abou
Former spies Josephine Daunt and Susan Dervish set up a detective agency.
Daunt and Dervish s1e1 After the Ball is Over
Feeling useless after the Second World War, two women set up their own detective agency. Stars Anna Massey and Imelda Staunton.
Read more…Encore for Murder- A Mike Hammer Original Mystery
From: WNIN
128K
This contemporary, original Mike Hammer radio play was performed before a live audience at the 2012 International Mystery Writer's Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky.
This new Mike Hamm
Read more…A missing husband; post-Wall Berlin; extreme political activists; and a severed hand with a wedding ring.
When successful businessman James Arden goes missing, his distraught wife is determined to find him, despite a lack of clues.
A darkly dist
Read more…Mr Cullender, a resourceful caddie and manservant, searches for a double murderer in the seething Old Town of Edinburgh.
With Alexander Morton, Richard Greenwood, Norman Maclean, Paul Young, Kern Falconer, Wendy Seager, Tom Smith, Liam Brennan, M
Read more…Coleman and Astor by Michael McStay Stephen Thorne as Inspector Coleman Joe Dunlop as Sergeant Astor Theme music by Stephen Warbeck Death Beach – 1990-10-13 Hollywood director Curt Zorack's filming is interrupted by a murder. Produced by Jane
Read more…Literary Consequences - Dead Of Night
Read By Bob Peck.
Written by......
Colin Forbes
Jack Higgins
Ken Follett
Ted Allbeury
& Craig Thomas
5 Thriller writers each take an episode of a 5 part thriller from May 1990. Each episode is 15 minutes
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Philip Howe Sion Probert
Det Sgt Pryce and Det Constable Rees are investigating a series of arson attacks on Welsh holiday cottages. It all s
Read more…It seemed like a good idea at the time - a week spent in the idyllic surroundings of a Peak District Guest House. But little did Paul and Margot Sutton realise that far from being a relaxing time, their holiday would turn into a time of stark ter
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