Radio Dramas

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 (Dramatised)

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Clive Merrison, Michael Williams

The volume includes 'Silver Blaze', 'The Yellow Face', 'The Stockbroker's Clerk', and 'The 'Gloria Scott'

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.

Rumpole and the Primrose Path (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 55 mins)
• By John Mortimer
• Narrated By Timothy West, Prunella Scales

Horace Rumpole, the Wordsworth loving, Shakespeare quoting, claret imbibing barrister returns in these hugely enjoyable stories of legal chicanery and criminal derring-do.

Murder on the Orient Express (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By John Moffatt

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious twelve times. There is no lack of clues for Poirot - but which clue is real and which is a clever plant?

Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair (Dramatization)

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Francis Durbridge
• Narrated By Peter Coke, Full Cast

In this adventure, Paul Temple is called in to investigate the disappearance of the Desmond baby, and the 'Sitter-In' Miss Millicent. When they visit Mary Desmond she is, understandably, very upset, it's already been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. The only clue is a telephone message left in Miss Millicent's handwriting: 'A Mr. Vandyke telephoned, he left no message'.

Dragnet: Old Time Radio - 380 Episodes

• ORIGINAL (137 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Frank Burt, James E. Moser, John Robinson
• Narrated By Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Ben Alexander, and others

Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work.

Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved both goals, and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media.

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Old Time Radio - 105 Shows

• ORIGINAL (48 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Raymond Chandler, Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell, and others
• Narrated By Gerald Mohr, Jeff Corey, Howard McNear

Philip Marlowe is a fictional private eye created by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe first appeared, under that name, in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring the Marlowe character. It first aired 17 June 1947 on NBC radio and moved to CBS radio a few months later. By 1949, it had the largest audience in radio. The CBS version ran for 114 episodes. While many fans of classic hard-boiled detective stories are familiar with Chandler's novels and short stories, few have heard these radio shows.

The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Old Time Radio - 52 Episodes

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Rex Stout, Louis Vittes
• Narrated By Sydney Greenstreet, Don Stanley

Nero Wolfe is an armchair detective created in 1934 by Rex Stout. Like many great detectives from the classic era, Nero Wolfe made the jump to radio and television. Five radio series have been produced starring Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. These episodes come primarily from The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe which aired on NBC radio from October, 1950 to April, 1951.

The Father Brown Mysteries: The Hammer of God, The Curse of the Golden Cross, The Mirror of the Magistrate, The Wrong Shape

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 2 mins)
• By G. K. Chesterton, M. J. Elliott
• Narrated By J. T. Turner, The Colonial Radio Players

"The Hammer of God" - Norman Bohun is a man with many enemies, so it comes as no surprise when he's eventually murdered. But Father Brown's biggest problem is in identifying a killer who must possess superhuman strength. "The Curse of the Golden Cross" - "I will kill any man who comes into possession of the Golden Cross." Professor Smaill is living in fear of an unseen adversary. Has his decision to confide in Father Brown come too late? "The Mirror of the Magistrate" - Bagshaw and Underhill are both students of crime. The murder of Sir Humphrey Gwynne presents them with only one suspect...who just happens to know Father Brown.