Bettie's Books
A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
Emil and the Detectives
bookshelves: fraudio, play-dramatisation, mystery-thriller, published-1929, kiddlewinks, adventure, filthy-lucre, germany
** spoiler alert ** It comes across a little dated and probably not palatable for today's streetwise kids but I thought it was a good fun adventure with a satisfying ending.
BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Play - October 17, 2009
60 minutes
Dramatisation by Katie Hims of the comic children's detective novel by Erich Kaestner. Country boy Emil Tischbein, up from Neustadt for the first time, enlists the aid of hundreds of Berlin street boys to help him catch a thief.
Emil ...... Joshua Swinney
Kaestner ...... Bruce Alexander
Grundeis ...... Ewan Hooper
Gustav ...... Daniel Cooper
Professor ...... Neil Reynolds
Traut ...... Bertie Gilbert
Peters ...... Josh Robinson
Tuesday ...... Harry Child
Pony ...... Agnes Bateman
Mrs Tischbein ...... Melissa Advani
Cashier ...... Tessa Nicholson
Jeschke ...... John Biggins
Guard ...... Rhys Jennings
Taxi Driver ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Grandma ...... Kate Layden
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
2