A BBC Radio 4 crime drama about a Merseyside mum-turned-private eye
Single mum Rosie Monaghan is 39 and redundant. Wondering what to do with the rest of her life – and with two kids to support – she decides to start a new career as a private detectiv
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Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden.
With his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect an
Read more…BBC radio have produced over 70 full cast adaptations of Agatha Christie’s beloved crime stories, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Hercule Poirot is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, known for his Belgian accent, waxed
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By: Peter Turnbull All 18 episodes of the police procedural featuring the Glasw
Thespian sleuth Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - especially in the form of women and alcohol. Estranged from his long-suffering wife, Frances, his personal life is shambolic, and as an ac
Rumpole of the Bailey is a radio series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer based on the television series Rumpole of the Bailey. Five different actors portrayed Horace Rumpole in these episodes: Leo McKern, Maurice
2017 was the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it’s been! In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in T
Like his actor namesake, Ronald Coleman is a suave, well-spoken English gentleman. But although he’s a movie buff, Coleman is no film star – he’s a copper, and a Detective Inspector to boot. Together with his down-to-earth Scottish partner, DS Fred A
Peter Whalley was Coronation Street’s longest-serving writer, scripting 601 episodes between 1979 and 2014. His other works included TV’s Albion Market and Castles, 40 radio plays and 10 novels, and in 2009 he was presented with a Special Achievemen
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This is a collection of BBC Radio dramatizations of some of Bradbury’s most notable works.
Fahrenheit 451 – Sometime in the future the fireman’s role has changed from stopping fires to starting them: the material being all books or printed matter of
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Set during World War Two, Hut 33 follows the adventures of a team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park as they work tirelessly to break German codes, matching wits with the fabled Enigma Machine. Unfortunately, they hate each other.
Archie is a stroppy
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I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue is a BBC radio comedy panel game. Introduced as “the antidote to panel games”, it consists of two teams of two comedians “given silly things to do” by a chairman. The show was launched in April 1972 as a parody of radio and
John Creasey was a one man novel factory, writing (according to Wikipedia) over 600 novels under 28 different names. Upper class detective Richard Rollison (aka ‘The Toff’) featured in over 40 novels, though the BBC have only dramatised 2 of these.
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Ten full-cast BBC Radio thrillers by Berkely Mather
Berkely Mather (real name John Evan Weston-Davies) was a British author who wrote sixteen novels ranging from historical adventures to espionage fiction. A prolific writer for television and radio,
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Sir John Gielgud stars as Sherlock Holmes with Sir Ralph Richardson as Dr. Watson. John’s brother, Val Gielgud, the celebrated mystery author and producer, directs several episodes and co-stars in one of them… as Sherlock’s brother! As a finishing to
The BBC was the first production company in the world to dramatise all sixty of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories with the same two actors in the lead roles throughout,. with Bert Coules as head writer, and featuring Clive Merrison as
In these classic stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Carleton Hobbs established the ‘sound’ of Sherlock Holmes, with Norman Shelley as his superb Watson.
S01E01 – The Man With the Twisted Lip
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he Blandings radio series is a series of radio dramas based on the Blandings Castle stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. The stories were dramatised by Wodehouse biographer Richard Usborne. The series ran between 1985 and 1992 on BBC Rad
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The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries.
Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world weary, hard boiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisat
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