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NPR Playhouse - Raffles

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NPR Playhouse was a series of radio dramas from National Public Radio. The series was a successor to the NPR series Earplay and was discontinued in September 2002

Arthur J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief –

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Boxer and Doberman

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Alastair Jessiman's gritty comedy police drama stars Finlay Welsh as DI Bob Boxer, Anita Vettesse as DC Shona Doberman and James Bryce as DCI Paton.

DC Shauna Doberman is regarded as the smart one in the crime-fighting duo, whilst DI Bob Boxer is th

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Morse – In the Shallows

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By Alma Cullen and adapted by Richard Stoneman.

Based upon characters created by Colin Dexter

Terrible things happen even in beautiful places and among highly educated people. Morse, Lewis and Strange are back on their criminally fertile Oxford pa

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Charles Paris Series by Simon Brett

51DJHD8VMDL._SL300_.jpg Charles Paris, an unhappily separated (but not divorced, more than 30 years on), moderately successful character actor with a slight drinking problem who gets entangled in various crimes, and finds himself in the role of unwilling amateur detective.

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Charles Paris - Dead Room Farce

Dead Room Farce 4 Episodes 

By Jeremy Front 
Based on the novel by Simon Brett 

A series of nasty accidents befall the cast of the play Charles is appearing in. Is it bad luck or is someone out to sabotage the production. 

Directed by Sally Avens 

As ever

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Dead Clever by Val McDermid

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Val McDermid's second "Dead" comedy crime drama.

DCI Alma Blair and DS Jason Trotter investigate the murder of Peter Piper, ancient incumbent of the Cecil Rhodes Chair of Geography at an unspecified Russell Group university in the North of England.

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