21 Jan: The Saturday Play - Beware of the Trains Based on stories by VL Whitechurch and M McD Bodkin. Written and directed by John Taylor. In the 1920s in a compartment of the Glasgow to London sleeping-car express, two men and a woman debate unsolve
A Charles Paris Mystery A Doubtful Death in 4 episodes Bill Nighy returns as the loveably louche actor-cum-amateur detective in Jeremy Front's series based on Simon Brett's stories. Charles is in Hamlet when an actress goes missing.
The Same River Twice A serial thriller in eight parts by Edward Boyd with Gordon Jackson The longer Johnny Maxen's search for his estranged wife goes on, the more mysterious her disappearance becomes, and now the police, in the person of Inspector Wa
The Saturday Play: The John Buchan Weekend by Robin Brooks When Richard Hannay signs up for a murder-mystery weekend based on "The Thirty-Nine Steps", he does not expect the drama to begin on his own doorstep. with Nicholas Murchie and Simon Walter D
The Saturday Play: The Killing of Dr Morgan Horror isn't about ghosts and monsters. Horror is about something closer to the truth, as revealed in Jim Poyser 's taut thriller about a man whose comfy, middle-class world crumbles when his wife's best fr
Philip Bartel's attempts to leave his beautiful but cold wife Beatrice, for passionate Lorna. His friend Peter Harding offers advice, then he too meets Lorna, with fatal results. Even the narrator-hero's part in the tragedy is far from innocent.
“It all begins when [teacher] Johnny Shields, takes out a girl from a dress shop and discovers he’s being followed….later, a faceless man from the Government puts to him a one-sided proposition which Shields cannot refuse…”…and it leads him into a w
Ralph Ellinger, a tormented 22-year-old Cambridge law student, walks into the local police station in the small town of Wintersleigh, confessing to Inspector Hadley of CID that he murdered a girl.
Andrew Marsh is not looking for--nor is he prepared for adventure.
He's got his hands full just making ends meet and keeping up with his high spending wife, Joyce. When a cynical, smirking Police Detective shows up at their door to upset the tenuou
By Didier Daeninckx, dramatised by Melanie Garrett
In 1985, a history student is gunned down in a Toulouse street. Inspector Cadin discovers the victim's father was also shot dead during a street demonstration in Paris. The key to both murders c