True stories of crime and trial in a bygone age, starring Tom Baker as Britain's celebrated barrister, Sir Edward Marshall Hall.
Episode 2: The Camden Town Murder. Did Bob Wood really murder Emily Dimmock by slitting her throat?
Introduced by Rumpole of the Bailey's creator John Mortimer. With Timothy Block, Kellie Bright, Nicholas Farr, David Glover and Jonathan Tafler.
John Mortimer (creator of Rumpole) presents a six-part series dramatising true crimes and trials that shocked the nation.
Episode 1: The Case of the Fire in Room 66
Sidney Henry Fox was a notorious con man, trickster and swindler, but did he kill his mother?
With Simon Treves, Elizabeth Kelly, Stephen Thorne, Sean Baker, Jane Whittenshaw, Ioan Meredith, Sally Baxter, Gavin Muir, Don McCorkindale and Joe Dunlop.
'Elderly lady living alone in remote house, willing to take in paying guests.'
When Miss Pickering puts this ad in the newspaper, she has an ulterior motive. So have the four gentlemen who reply...
Miss Pickering .... Monica Grey
Colonel Fryatt .... Norman Shelley
Dr Brown .... Jonathan Scott
Harris .... Peter Woodthorpe
Wakeson .... Howard Goorney
Bank Manager .... Lewis Stringer
Woman in Telephone Kiosk .... Daisy Bell
Jones .... Brian Gear
Woman in Crowd .... Elizabeth Havelock
Constable .... Douglas Leach
Car Driver .... David Ponting
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1977.
First published in 1976, Colin Dexter's second Morse crime novel dramatised by Guy Meredith.
Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person case from a dead colleague, but murder is Morse's speciality and the case soon has complications...
Inspector Morse ...... John Shrapnel
Sergeant Lewis ...... Robert Glenister
Donald Philipson ...... Miles Anderson
Sheila Philipson ...... Melinda Walker
Gwen Taylor ...... Frances Jeater
George Taylor ...... Donald Sumpter
Valerie Taylor ...... Tamsin Greig
Reginald Baines ...... Terence Edmond
Chief Supt. Strange ...... John Hartley
Mrs Ainley ...... Auriol Smith
John McGuire ..... Paul Panting
Sergeant Dickson ..... Lyndam Gregory
David Acum ...... David Jarvis
Joe ...... James Taylor
Versatile Vera ...... Emily Woof
Police Surgeon ...... Don McCorkindale
Sergeant Onslow ...... Michael Onslow
Radio 3 announcer ...... Catriona Young
Concussion can play strange tricks on the mind, but Richard Gordon knew what he had seen when he staggered into that remote village seeking help ... he had seen a full-scale funeral - and at one o'clock in the morning ...
Sally Gordon:………Joanna Wake
Richard Gordon:……..Noel Johnson
Clergyman:………Clifford Norgate
Doctor Norton:……….Godfrey Kenton
Sam Stringer:……….Douglas Blackwell
Major Kendrick:……….Garard Green
Jack Wilkes:……..Raymond Huntley
Charlie Farrell:………David Neal
Albert the Sexton:…………Alan Dudley