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The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile phone was just a
picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen
too many dead bodies in his time to know that this man was no
longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why?
While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne
searches the daily police bulletins for a reported death that would
match the photograph. Then another picture arrives. Another dead
man ... It is the identities of the murdered men which give Thorne
his first clue, a link to a dangerous killer he'd put away years
before and who is still in prison. With a chilling talent for
manipulation, this man has led another inmate to plot revenge on
everyone he blames for his current incarceration, and for the
murder of his family while he's been inside. Newly released, this
convict has no fear of the police, no feelings for those he is
compelled to murder. Now Tom Thorne must face one of the toughest
challenges of his career, knowing that there is no killer more
dangerous than one who has nothing left to lose.
Thrilling full-cast radio dramatisations of three of Charles
Dickens' classic novels. Charles Dickens is one of the most
renowned novelists of all time, and this second volume of the
dramatised canon of his work includes the gripping historical novel
Barnaby Rudge, picaresque comedy Martin Chuzzlewit and bittersweet
tale of family relationships Dombey and Son. Barnaby Rudge Against
the background of the anti-Catholic riots of the 1780s, young
Barnaby Rudge becomes entangled with the fanatical George Gordon
and his campaign for 'No Popery'. But mob violence, the burning of
Newgate Prison and the shadow of murder put his life in danger...
Martin Chuzzlewit Disinherited by his wealthy grandfather because
of his love for the beautiful Mary, Martin Chuzzlewit sets sail for
America to seek his fortune. Dombey and Son Wealthy Paul Dombey is
desperate for a male heir to continue the family business, and
neglects his six-year-old daughter Florence. Then, at last, the
longed-for son is born - but Dombey's hopes for him go
unfulfilled... With a star cast including Simon Cadell, Bill Nighy,
Alex Jennings, Robert Glenister, Geraldine James and Pam Ferris,
these BBC radio adaptations bring out all the suspense, adventure,
satire and social realism of Dickens' three classic masterpieces.
Duration: 19 hours approx.
Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel
as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by
Colin Dexter of one of his short stories. In Last Seen Wearing,
Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person
case from a dead colleague. But two years, three months and two
days after teenager Valerie Taylor's disappearance, somebody
decides to supply some surprising new evidence. . . In The Silent
World of Nicholas Quinn Inspector Morse tackles the murder of an
exam invigilator. The newly appointed member of the Oxford foreign
exam syndicate was deaf, and he wasn't from the insular world of
the Oxford colleges. Now he is dead. After he's rushed into
hospital, Inspector Morse becomes intrigued by an old crime in The
Wench is Dead. Could the wrong men have been hanged for the murder
of Joanna Franks? Plus Colin Dexter reads his own short story, The
Double Crossing, in which it is a good first day for a certain
detective named Lewis. Gripping, suspenseful and entertaining,
these BBC dramatisations were adapted by Guy Meredith from the
original Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter. Duration: 4 hours
45 mins approx.
The collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf's pioneering
modernist novels The Voyage Out A sea voyage to South America turns
into a journey of self-discovery for naive Rachel Vinrace. Night
and Day In pre-First World War London, aristocrat Katharine Hilbery
and suffragette Mary Datchet have their assumptions about love
challenged. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf's masterpiece charts one
day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host an
important party. To the Lighthouse Centring around a summer home on
Skye, Virginia Woolf's landmark tale follows the Ramsay family and
their guests before and after World War I. Orlando The adventures
of time-travelling, gender-swapping poet Orlando, who is born male
in Elizabethan England and dies female over 300 years later. The
Waves In this radical 'play-poem', six characters look back on
their childhood and first forays into adulthood, and reflect on the
loss of their friend Percival. Between the Acts An eccentric artist
devises a pageant celebrating English history - but it is 1939, and
the shadow of war hangs over England's present. Among the stars of
these seven poignant, penetrating dramatisations are Bertie Carvel,
Kristin Scott-Thomas, Dervla Kirwan, John Lynch, Geraldine James,
Anna Massey and Don Warrington.
When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband
in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just
spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her
daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man
responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private
investigator, to find him. DI Tom Thorne worked on the Alan
Langford case, so when Carpenter brings the photo to him, he
refuses to believe that the man whose body was found in a
burned-out car ten years before can still be alive. But when a
prison inmate that he and Anna interview is viciously murdered,
Thorne starts to understand that Langford is not only alive, but
ready to get rid of anyone who could threaten his comfortable new
life in Spain...
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