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Author: Michael Pearce
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Author Michael Pearce
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 2m
Why was the body put on the line? Did someone want to halt the progress of the new electric railway out from Cairo to the 'City of Pleasure' being built in the suburbs? Old Egypt is pitted against new and in the middle is Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's Secret Police.
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Author Michael Pearce
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 7h 30m
Tangiers in 1912 is an unusual city - sometimes the police are there, and sometimes they aren't. When Seymour of Scotland Yard arrives to investigate a murder things inevitably go wrong. Seymour finds himself caught between the ancient and the modern worlds in this divided country, where tradition is harsh and limiting, and the future crashes in th...
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Author Michael Pearce
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 7h
Barcelona in 1912 is a city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalan conscripts bound for the unpopular war in Spanish Morocco had rebelled at the city's dockside against the royalist forces. In the fighting many were killed and afterwards even more were thrown into prison. Including an Englishman, wh...
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Author Michael Pearce
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 32m
Gareth Cadwallader Owen is the Mamur Zapt, the Head of the Khedive's Secret Police. However, unlike his British colleagues, Owen works for the Khedive. It's not a comfortable perch, as agitation for political and social restructuring grows. Furthermore, Owen is married to a pasha's daughter, Zeinab, herself straddling a cultural divide. The Khedive...
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