Raffles: The Complete Series 1-3

18 BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations

De: E.W. Hornung

Narrado por: full cast, Jeremy Clyde, Michael Cochrane

Eighteen BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations featuring Raffles, the 'gentleman thief'.

Jeremy Clyde stars as the cricket playing A. J. Raffles, with Michael Cochrane as his jeweller sidekick, Bunny. Together they embark upon a series of well-planned crimes against the highest of society.

Based on the stories by E W Hornung, the episodes in this collection are:

'The Ides of March'

'Gentlemen and Players'

'A Costume Piece'

'Nine Points of the Law'

'Wilful Murder'

'The Chest of Silver'

'The Rest Cure'

'The Criminologists' Club'

'The Field of Philippi'

'A Bad Night'

'A Trap to Catch a Cracksman'

'The Gift of the Emperor'

'No Sinecure'

'To Catch a Thief'

'An Old Flame'

'The Raffles Relics'

'The Knees of the Gods'

'The Last Word'

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A little disappointing

Maybe my expectations were too high, but for some reason this fell a bit flat for me. The acting was great but the stories were just ‘fine’. They lacked a certain wit and I didn’t quite like the characters. They felt a bit flat.