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Dover and the unkindest cut of all by Joyce PORTER

Dover and the unkindest cut of all - Joyce PORTER

 

 

bookshelves: fradio, radio-4, play-dramatisation, britain-wales, amusing, mystery-thriller, published-1969, suicide, autumn-2011, tongue-firmly-in-cheek

Recommended for: Brazilliant Laura and all BBC listeners
Read from November 23 to 27, 2011

 

 

Saturday play 26/11/2011. Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, set in the 1970s, dramatised by Paul Mendelson.

Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...

blurb - Chief Inspector Dover's annual seaside break becomes a busman's holiday with the death of a local policeman. Was it suicide and was it linked to the recent murder of a well-known gangster? It's another strange case for Scotland Yard's laziest detective.

Chief Inspector Dover ...... Kenneth Cranham
Sgt McGregor ...... Stuart McQuarrie
Chief Constable ...... Philip Madoc
Mrs Dover ...... Carolyn Pickles
Sgt Rhys-Smith ...... Gareth Armstrong
Joey the Jock ...... Ben Crowe
Miss Ffiske ...... Jennifer Hill
Sandra Pugh ...... Siwan Morris

Directed by David Ian Neville.

Back in print: the fourth adventure of Joyce Porter's Inspector Dover--Scotland Yard's best-kept secret. When a woman witnesses a young policeman's suicide and has the bad taste to report it, Dover's vacation stops at the seaside wasteland of Wallerton. As he sluggishly investigates the matter, an earlier case of murder and mutilation turns up as well.