All twelve episodes of the BBC radio detective drama, starring Annette Badland as DI Gwen Danbury
Detective Inspector Gwen Danbury comes from a family of investigators. Her father was a policeman, and her mother Joan often discussed cases with him – on one occasion helping him to solve a tricky murder.
Gwen already has a capable, efficient sidekick in the form of DS Henry Jacobs – but nevertheless, her mum insists on helping Gwen with her inquiries. In these three series, her interfering assistance proves invaluable as DI Danbury investigates a skeleton found in the Sussex woods, tracks down the killer of a respectable elderly lady, probes the theft of a valuable painting and encounters more than she bargained for on a murder mystery weekend...
Miss Marple meets Midsomer Murders in this cosy crime series created by Sue Rodwell, whose writing credits include the radio version of Dixon of Dock Green. Annette Badland stars as DI Gwen Danbury, with Gudrun Ure, Stephanie Cole and Margaret Tyzack as Joan and John Duttine as Henry.
Written by Sue Rodwell
Directed by Glyn Dearman (Series 1), Rosemary Watts (Series 2 and 3)
First broadcast between 1994 and 2004
Wisden- Overseas Tour. Travel around the world from Australia to Trinidad, the Antarctic to Cambodia, in the company of some of Cricket's most notable personalities, witnessing both triumphs and disasters as we recreate the game's unpredictable adventures abroad. Join a cricket match played in a Japanese POW camp, marvel as Garfield Sober's surpasses Hutton's world record test innings, hear of the arrest of an English wicket-keeper in colonial Australia and relive Don Bradman's record breaking 1930 season. Our cast includes Nicola Barber, Terence Edmond, Stephen Thorne, Jim Barclay, David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Nicholas Day, David Pullan, Andrew Wincott, Amerjit Deu, Keith Stewart and Jonathan Wrather.
Wisden - Tea In The Pavilion, take your seat at the most momentous and curious English cricket matches as we relive some of the more colourful and intriguing events in the history of the game: King George VI taking a hat trick in the grounds of Windsor Castle, a cricket-loving vicar escaping death on the high seas, Denis Compton scoring 18 centuries in the glorious summer of '47 and a wartime bomb stopping play at Lords. Our cast includes Nicola Barber, Terence Edmond, Stephen Thorne, Jim Barclay, David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Nicholas Day, David Pullan, Andrew Wincott, Amerjit Deu, Keith Stewart and Jonathan Wrather.
Wisden 137 Not Out. Cricket's legends play again as we join WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Denis Compton. Geoffrey Boycott and other great cricketers. We relive Len Hutton's 13-hour stand against Australia in the summer of '38, marvel at lan Botham's 1981 tour de force at Old Trafford, accompany Ted Dexter as he stands for Parliament and join Wilfred Rhodes, aged 49, taking six for 79 as he saves England from defeat in 1962. Our cast includes Nicola Barber, Terence Edmond, Stephen Thorne, Jim Barclay, David Goodhand, Howard Ward, Nicholas Day, David Pullan, Andrew Wincott, Amerjit Deu, Keith Stewart and Jonathan Wrather.
David Calder, David Tennant and Hamish Clark star in these BBC Radio 4 dramas based on the original TV series.
George Dixon became one of the best-known and most-loved fictional policemen during the course of three decades of BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green, in which he was played by Jack Warner. In these 12 radio adaptations he once again upholds the law on the streets of 1950s Dock Green.
David Calder stars as PC George Dixon, with David Tennant and Hamish Clark as PC Andy Dixon. Running time: 6 hours approx.
