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The Eyes of Max Carrados
A Max Carrados Mystery: Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama
by Mr. Punch
read by Simon Callow, Lionel Jeffries, David Bannerman, Marianne Morley
Part 1 of the Thriller Playhouse series
Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour.
Meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart. In The Eyes of Max Carrados, our hero discovers a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter's quest to clear her father's name.
"Bert Coules, Sherlock Holmes specialist, has adapted this story and is sensitive to the idiosyncratic Carrados with his instinctive sympathy for human weakness." Sunday Times – Gillian Reynolds Choice
"Atmospheric and Great Fun." Daily Express
Also available as part of the THRILLER PLAYHOUSE BOX SET, eight episodes featuring Max Carrados, Norman Conquest and Ben from the popular BBC Drama series.
Cast
Simon Callow as Max Carrados
Lionel Jeffries as Parkinson
Philip Glenister as Frank
Teresa Gallagher as Madelaine Whitmarsh
Matthew Marsh as William Whitmarsh
Marianne Morley as Mrs Lawrence
Michael Beint as Lawyer
David Bannerman as Villain
& full supporting cast.
Based on a story by Ernest Bramah
Dramatisation: Bert Coules
Music: Robert Rigby
Director: Alan Drury
Producer: Stewart Richards & Michael Cameron
© & ℗ 2022 Mr Punch Audiobooks Ltd

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The Ingenious Mind of Rigby Lacksome
A Max Carrados Mystery: Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama
by Mr. Punch
read by Simon Callow, Lionel Jeffries, Deidra Morris, Ian Armstrong
Part 3 of the Thriller Playhouse series
Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour.
Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective is lured to Stratford upon Avon following an explosion by a band of determined suffragettes. Faced with the ingenious mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome, Max and his trusty servant Parkinson must solve the riddle of the missing body of William Shakespeare
"In no other play will you hear that Shakespeare went by train from Stratford-upon-Avon to Paddington. Not all of the Bard though. Just his bones... In Sue Rodwell's enjoyable dramatisation, everybody including a cockney manservant, quotes Shakespeare at the drop of a hat." The Times
"Good News... Simon Callow stars as the blind detective, Max Carrados, Lionel Jeffries as his servant and 'eyes', Parkinson." Sunday Times – Gillian Reynolds Choice
"Atmospheric and Great Fun." Daily Express
Also available as part of the THRILLER PLAYHOUSE BOX SET, eight episodes featuring Max Carrados, Norman Conquest and Ben from the popular BBC Drama series.
Cast
Simon Callow as Max Carrados
Lionel Jeffries as Parkinson
Stephen Tompkinson as Rigby Lacksome
Lynsey Baxter as Moya
Oona Benson as Maisie
Deidra Morris as Miss Poppington
Ian Armstrong as Lost Property Man
Robert Oates as Doctor
& full supporting cast.
© & ℗ 2022 Mr Punch Audiobooks Ltd

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Blonde for Danger
A Norman Conquest Thriller: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama
by Mr. Punch
read by Christopher Cazenove, Bonnie Langford, Ali Hames, Alice Arnold
Part 5 of the Thriller Playhouse series
Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour.
In Blonde for Danger, our handsome desperado, Norman Conquest aka 1066, has to pit his wits against the evil crook Bosworth Field. But who is the beautiful blonde he finds lying in the middle of the road and who is she hiding from? And where exactly does J.J. Pace, the famous racing car designer fit into this?
"It is pure 1930s, when the hero did say to the villain: "Good grief! You're a cold blooded killer!" and the heroine did affectionately call her hero "a cockeyed chump!" To all concerned "Jolly good show, chaps." The Times
"Christopher Cazenove seems to relish his role as Norman Conquest, a hero about who dashing is the least that could be said! Atmospheric and great fun for those who prefer older-style detectives." Daily Express
Also available as part of the THRILLER PLAYHOUSE BOX SET, eight episodes featuring Max Carrados, Norman Conquest and Ben from the popular BBC Drama series.
Cast
Christopher Cazenove as Norman Conquest
Bonnie Langford as Pixie
Bill Nighy as J.J. Pace
Richard Davies as Chief Inspector Williams
Colin Spaull as Mandeville Livingstone
Alice Arnold as Peggy Drake
Shaun Prendergast as Fred
Anthony Jackson as Lord Chedworth
Ali Hames as Ma Hawkins
& full supporting cast.

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Ben Sees It Through
Thriller Playhouse ; Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama
by Mr. Punch
read by Tony Robinson, Leslie Phillips, Christopher Benjamin, Jon Glover
Part 10 of the Thriller Playhouse series
Ben, the chivalrous and perky non-descript little man, whose thumbs itch just before 'something 'orrible 'appens' played by Tony Robinson is joined by Leslie Phillips as the devilish Lovelace in J Jefferson Farjeon's 1930's thriller.
A hat lost in the English Channel, a dagger buried in a toff's back and an incriminating letter from an MP entice Ben into the world of arms dealers and smugglers as he battles to save Europe from another World War!
"Murder mysteries always work well… and Mr Punch's Thriller Playhouse is particularly good... Atmospheric and Great Fun." Daily Express
To all concerned "Jolly good show, chaps." The Times
Also available as part of the THRILLER PLAYHOUSE BOX SET, eight episodes featuring Max Carrados, Norman Conquest and Ben from the popular BBC Drama series.
Starring
Tony Robinson as Ben
Leslie Phillips as Lovelace
with
Rebecca Lacey as Molly
Jon Glover as Pasquale
Christopher Benjamin as Medway
Kate Odey as Violet
Shaun Prendergast as Henry
Royce Mills as White
& full supporting cast
Based on a story by J. Jefferson Farjeon
© & ℗ 2022 Mr Punch Audiobooks Ltd
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