Thriller Playhouse

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

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

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.

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