A BBC Radio comedy detective drama by Simon Brett, starring Bill Nighy as actor-cum-amateur sleuth, Charles Paris. Charles has uncharacteristically landed a part in a film called The Wreathing, in which he's playing a middle managemen...

Charles Paris, middle-aged actor turned amateur sleuth, is vacationing at a small English seaside town. Irresistibly drawn to anything theatrical, Charles seeks entertainment at the local music hall and endures a series of not-so-wond...

This is a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Simon Brett's comic crime novel, starring Bill Nighy as actor turned amateur sleuth Charles Paris. Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - esp...

Charles Paris is an unhappily separated, moderately successful actor with a slight drinking problem. As he becomes entangled in various crimes, he finds himself in the role of unwilling amateur detective. In The Dead Side of the Mic, ...

When Jude and Carole stumble across the body of ex-equestrian Walter Fleet, the police attribute the stabbing to the mysterious ''Horse Ripper.'' But considering Walter's track record out of the saddle, there are plenty of murder susp...

This BBC radio drama stars Bill Nighy and features a full cast. Charles Paris's acting career plummets to new depths when he takes the part of a murder victim in a true-crime TV series. But Charles is drawn into an investigation when ...

Two full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations starring David Threlfall as the crime-solving priest. On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected t...

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of a novel by Simon Brett, adapted by Jeremy Front. While appearing in a Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles finds a body beneath Eastbourne Pier,...

Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is...

Carole Seddon\'s trusty Renault is one of her most treasured possessions. So when it’s vandalised, there\'s only one person she will entrust with its repair: Bill Shefford, who’s been servicing the vehicles of the good...

Although she hadn't known Leonard Mallett very well, nor liked him particularly, Carole Seddon feels duty bound to attend her fellow committee member's funeral. As she suspected, the hymns, readings, and sermon are all very predictabl...

Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library, successful author Burton St Clair invites his old friend Jude to come along. Although they haven't met for 20 years, Jude is not surprised to find that St Clair hasn't changed, w...

Declutterer Ellen Curtis has been working to bring order into the life of Cedric Waites, a recluse in his eighties who hasn't left his house or let anyone inside it since his wife died. On one of her regular visits, Ellen finds the ol...

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