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Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky 6 x 30' 1997 Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey 3 x 30' 1980 Breaking Point by Dick Francis 6 x 30' 1974 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 5 x 30' 1994 Chance Acquaintances 1 x 45’ 2006 The Cry of the Owl (1-4) by Patricia Highsmith 4 x 30’ The Employee 1x 60’ 2005 Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie 5 x 30' 1998 Another case for Chicago's feisty sleuth, V.I. Warshawski. After Warshawski gets involved in the suspicious death of a 16-year-old mother and her baby, a cover up leads to gangland violence and V.I. herself under suspicion of murder. Warshawski is played by Sharon Gless, star of the long-running TV series Cagney and Lacey. A romantic drama of intrigue and trickery. DR0010 CN3559 Beneath the thrills and excitement of the race course, an undercurrent of intrigue and violence threatens the career and the life of an ambitious young jockey. Based on the novel, Nerve. CN2213 A vivid and compelling version of Greene's classic study of good and evil, set in the gangland world of a seedy seaside resort in the 1930s. TCD1014 The story of the pre-war summer in which the famous, bohemian and charming French writer, Colette, became an accidental resident in an Alpine spa - accompanied only by her beloved striped cat. Amidst the mountains, the sulphur and the sick, she is befriended by an apparently conventional bourgeois couple and finds herself unwittingly and unwillingly embroiled in their lives. DR0154 The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith and adapted for radio by Shaun McKenna. Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic, liable to violence, had even fired a gun at her. Maybe he was a psychopathic murderer... DR0093 A dark comedy about the pressures of modern life. Iain Adam is Head of Maintenance in an 'intelligent' building, The Elm, and his world is starting to unravel - with spectacular consequences... DR0140 Hercule Poirot cuts an unlikely figure among the swimmers and sunbathers on Smugglers' Island. But he's not on holiday for very long. The little grey cells are soon at work - on a glamorous corpse. DR0034 10
Fatherland by Robert Harris 5 x 30' 1998 The Guns Of Navarone by Alistair MacLean 5 x 30' 1997 The Inn 1 x 60’ 2006 Inspector West At Home by John Creasey 7 x 30 1972 The Lady In The Lake by Raymond Chandler 3 x 30' 1979 The Last Adventure 1 x 60’ 2006 The Little Photographer 1 x 45' 2003 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Oscar Wilde 2 x 60’ 2006 It's 1964, but not as we know it. Germany won the war, Hitler is still in power and security is tight for the Fuhrer's seventy-fifth birthday. Late at night the body of a one-legged man is fished from a Berlin lake and a detective called to investigate. He finds himself on the trail of a terrible secret. An acclaimed adaptation of the best-selling novel. DR0029 The blockbusting adventure thriller. It is 1943 and two huge German guns on an island fortress stand between hard-pressed British troops and safety. Unless the guns can be put out of action, 1000 men will die. DR0016 A haunting, wintry, snow-bound tale of loneliness and dark imaginings, as a young mountain guide finds himself in sole charge of a remote Alpine hotel. It begins with the first stirrings of a love affair; it ends in mystery and mayhem … DR0179 The trail West follows to clear himself of a charge of corruption leads to kidnapping, blackmail, theft on a gigantic scale and murder. CN1505 Ed Bishop is Philip Marlowe in this dramatisation of one of Chandler's best-known detective novels. Usable independently or as part of a Philip Marlowe series. CN3279 In January 1824, Lord Byron arrived in Missalonghi determined to fight for Greek Independence from Turkish rule. The story of his three months as commander in chief of a small and unruly force of mercenaries and freedom fighters is also the story of the last days of his extraordinary life. DR0147 The young Madame La Marquise is away on holiday - alone and bored. But then she meets the local photographer and feels the thrill of being looked at... <strong>Drama</strong>tised by Michelene Wandor this is classic Du Maurier territory - an illicit and slow-burning passion, with a surprise twist in the tail. DR0103 A new dramatisation of Oscar Wilde's deliciously witty short story. If Lord Arthur Savile is to marry Sybil Merton he must first face up to his inevitable fate - to commit murder. DR0149 11
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Page 3 and 4: The Aspern Papers by Henry James 2
Page 5 and 6: Kipps by H.G. Wells 5 x 60' 1988 L'
Page 7 and 8: Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 3 x 60
Page 9: Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly
Page 13 and 14: The Pledge 1 x 60’ 2006 The Price
Page 15 and 16: Pet Sematary by Stephen King 6 x 30
Page 17 and 18: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Page 19 and 20: Gilbert Without Sullivan (1-5) 5 x
Page 21 and 22: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 1
Page 23 and 24: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 6 x
Page 25 and 26: The Merchant Of Venice 165' 1977 A
Page 27 and 28: The Dresser by Ronald Harwood 90' T
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