Bettie's Books

bookshelves: mystery-thriller, summer-2010, published-1995, britain-england, play-dramatisation

** spoiler alert ** Bog standard story but spiced up with some very funny dialogue and a fab music background track.

Stars Bill Nighy

Broadcast on:
BBC Radio 7, 1:00pm Tuesday 3rd August 2010

Available until:
1:32pm Tuesday 10th August 2010
Categories:
Drama, Crime

Simon Brett's oldest and most beloved character, Charles Paris, is back. Paris, the often out-of-work actor, has a good part for a change playing Sir Toby Belch in a summer festival production of "Twelfth Night." But when the director takes ill and then Paris' friend in the production is the apparent victim of intentional food poisoning meant for Paris, it's not long until the bodies start to turn up. Paris is forced to deal with a wild young director whose idea of Shakespeare the bard himself would hate