John Dickson Carr - Gideon Fell - To Wake the Dead

Thriller dramatised first published in 1938, in two-parts by Peter Ling.

Starring Donald Sinden as detective, Doctor Gideon Fell.

Episode 1 of 2 The Riddle of the Stone

1937: on the eve of the coronation of King George VI, a woman is murdered in a grand London hotel. But the police know it's not the first of its kind...

Dr Gideon Fell:…………Donald Sinden

Superintendent Hadley:…………John Hartley

Sir Giles Gray:…………Richard Johnson

Melita Reaper:……….Wendy Craig

Chris Kent:…………David Brooks

Episode 2 of 2 The Secret in the Stone.

A strange bracelet and some silver buttons hold the clue to the murderer.

Dr Gideon Fell's murder investigation reaches its climax as King George VI is about to be crowned…

Dr Gideon Fell:………….Donald Sinden

Superintendent Hadley:……….John Hartley

Sir Giles Gray:…………Richard Johnson

Melita Reaper:…………Wendy Craig

Chris Kent:………….David Brooks

Director: Enyd Williams

To Wake the Dead: Two episodes

First broadcast: From - Wed 22nd Oct 1997, 14:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Wealthy young Christopher Kent has undertaken a bet: that he cannot work his way from South Africa to England without recourse to his own bank account. With less than twenty-four hours left before he can reveal himself and win the bet, Kent arrives at a London hotel he knows, hoping to scam a meal--only to find himself trapped in a room with a half open trunk and a dead woman's body.

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Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Vanity Fair is Thackeray’s resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero," it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharp—one of literature’s most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroines—and her foil, the faithful, naive Amelia Sedley. Thackeray’s subversive, comic attack on the hypocrisy and "dismal roguery" of an avaricious world resonates 150 years later with implications for our own times.

"Thackeray is an urbane nineteenth-century guide and commentator in a portrait gallery that is for all time," observed Louis Auchincloss. "He is the restless inhabitant of a prudish age, nostalgic, discursive, anecdotal, sentimental, worldly-wise, now warning us, now making fun of us, now reproving us …. Thackeray’s harshest criticism of humanity is simply the point where ours commences. His perception of self-interest in every act is the ABC of modem

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By John Dickson Carr, dramatised by Peter Ling.


There is only one clue to a brutal killing on an ocean liner - the engraving on the murder weapon.

Dr Gideon Fell:………Donald Sinden

Superintendent Hadley:………John Hartley

Lord Sturton:……..Patrick Allen

Captain Whistler:……..Clive Swift

Curtis Warren:…….Mark Leake

Peggy Glen:……Laura Bazeley

Also in the cast:……..David Bannerman…….Christopher Wright

Duncan Knowles…….Josh Darcy

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Thrilling series set in 1890s Whitechapel. Welsh farm girl Megan Evans comes to London to visit her brother who is running the family's dairy business - but her brother is strangely unwelcoming.

Megan Evans ….. Bettrys Jones

Luc Evans ….. Trystan Gravelle

Samuel Singer ….. David Horovitch

Moses Lipski ….. Brian Protheroe

Annie Riley ….. Alice Haig

by Gregory Evans

Directed by Marc Beeby

In 1900 over half London's milk came from Welsh dairies. One of those dairies, on the Commercial Road, was owned and run by the writer’s family.

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After a woman is found fatally overdosed, a rumor spreads linking her to Roger Ackroyd, who is subsequently found dead.

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Two middle-aged women have gone missing in Flaxborough, and Purbright's investigations lead him to local marriage bureau Handclasp House. Meanwhile, the resourceful Miss Lucy Teatime has her own interest in the agency...

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Bump in the Night - Tuesday nights in Chalmsbury are becoming quite explosive: first a drinking fountain is blown to bits, then the statue of Alderman Berry is decapitated, and the following week a giant glass eye is shattered. On loan from Flaxborough CID, can Purbright find the mystery bomber?

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Drama based on "The Flaxborough Chronicles" by Colin Watson. Inspector Purbright is puzzled by the death of a prominent citizen.

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Martin Chuzzlewit's money has brought him nothing but grief in this story of greed and hypocrisy

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The Unexpected Guest begins on a foggy night at a lonely country house, where a woman with a gun in her hand is quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looks like a straightforward case of murder. Or is it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look...

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