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AuthorSimon Brett
NarratorFull Cast
Duration27m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Humour and Comedy, Plays and Dramatisations
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionAbridged
Episode 2 of 4 of the BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series 'Turf Wars', Nigel Planner stars in 'An Incident at the Border', Kieran Lynn's comedy about boundaries that are both territorial and personal. Directed by Peter Kavanagh and originally broadcast 16 October 2011. Arthur (Joe Kloska) and Olivia (Leah Brotherhead), take in the sun in their local park on a beautiful summer's day. Olivia is reading a newspaper article on their country's new-found independence. It seems that no-one knows quite what the terms are for the secession. Arthur couldn't care less. He's apolitical and just enjoying watching the ducks. Suddenly a soldier (Nigel Planer) arrives, dragging a tape across the ground, marking out the new border. He barges between the two young lovers. Now one is on one side of the new border, and another is on the other! The lover's attempt to cross is now met with a stun-gun jolt from the guard, who's been trained to be suspicious of everyone who isn't from 'this country' and this includes Arthur! How can our lovers be reunited? Starring Nigel Planer as Reiver, Leah Brotherhead as Olivia and Joseph Kloska as Arthur.
Author: Nick Warburton
Author Nick Warburton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
First episode to kick-off the BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series, 'Turf Wars' by Nick Warburton, originally broadcast on the 9 March 2011. This delicious comedy, 'Losing the Plot', stars James Fleet as Edward, a bashful man who, passing a local allotment, speaks to an attractive female allotee (Joanna Monro). He decides there and then that he must app...
View BookCharles Paris Mysteries Book 8: Murder Unprompted
Author: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Geoffrey Howard
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 8
Duration 5h 4m
"I want you all out-gone-dead-exterminated!" high strung Alex Household cried out, when, after a lifetime of struggle, he lost the starring role in a new play called The Hooded Owl-to an actor who couldn't remember his lines. But did that mean that it was Alex who had shot the leading man dead during his climactic speech? charles Paris, for one, co...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
As part of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series: 'Turf Wars', in this short 3rd play of 4, 'How's Your Mother?' by Simon Brett, Michael Maloney stars as mysterious villager Humphrey Partridge. In a gossipy village Humphrey is reckoned to be anti-social, indeed stand-offish. But he always has an excuse - namely that he has to look after his ailing el...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 7h 25m
It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. It wasn't the dilapidated barn in which she was forced to seek shelter. No, what upset her most was the human skeleton she discovered there.... So begins the second investigation for strait-laced Carole and her more laid-back neighbour Jude. This time their enquir...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 8h 30m
Bracketts, an Elizabethan house near the town of Fethering, is about to be turned into a museum. Once the home of celebrated poet Esmund Chadleigh, it has been decided that it should now become a shrine to his life and poetry. But the transition from house to museum is running far from smoothly, and Carole soon begins to regret her decision to be o...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 6h 55m
Invited to a Private View of the work of controversial artist Denzil Willoughby, the good citizens of Fethering are not quite sure what to expect. And it turns out to be a lively affair, culminating in several embarrassing confrontations. But what no one could have anticipated was that the evening would end in sudden, violent death. The police seem...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 7h 35m
All bets are on when there's a body found at the bookies. When Jude wanders into Fethering's local bookies she has no idea that she will shortly be investigating the murder of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski. With her partner in crime, friend and next-door-neighbour Carole, she's determined to discover who killed him - and why? There are several...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Front
Author Jeremy Front
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Beth just wants what's best for her 11 year old son; a solid secondary education at the kind of school that recognises his genius, as well as his aptitude for baroque music. A school like Folgate. But when the family is edged out of Folgate's catchment area, a battle begins. Beth takes on the might of the council with a mixture of community action,...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 4, Book 1
Duration 43m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In Cross Purposes, Father Baldi teams up with a surprisingly adept Father Troy to solve some crossword-related murders in Dublin's literary circles....
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 9h
Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. The two amateur detectives wonder if it might just be...
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