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Val McDermid: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions
- Narrated by: full cast, Charlotte Coleman, Jane Hazelgrove, Jimmy Chisholm, Helen Baxendale, Gina McKee, Hannah Donaldson, Siobhan Redmond, Claire Knight, David Seddon
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A BBC Radio collection of full-cast dramatisations, radio plays and short stories by the best-selling crime writer.
Award-winning 'Queen of Crime' Val McDermid has sold over 17 million books worldwide, and been translated into over 40 languages. Her Wire in the Blood series was adapted for TV, starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris, and ran for six seasons. Included here are full-cast adaptations of several of her acclaimed novels, as well as four tales specially written for BBC Radio.
Clean Break - When a Monet is stolen from a stately home where she'd arranged the security, Manchester-based PI Kate Brannigan sets off on a chase across Europe that brings her face-to-face with organised crime. Starring Charlotte Coleman.
The Right Chemistry - Jane Hazelgrove stars in this follow-up to Clean Break, which sees Kate embroiled in a deadly case of industrial sabotage, blackmail, counterfeiting and murder.
The Distant Echo - Late one night in the snow, four students stumble upon the body of a dead girl. 25 years later, the police launch a cold-case review of the unsolved murder—but is the killing over? A thrilling dramatisation of the first Karen Pirie novel, starring Jimmy Chisholm, John-Paul Hurley and Claire Knight.
Village SOS - Investigating a murder in the sleepy Northumbrian village of Shilwick, DCI Marion Bettany and DS John Hodgson find the residents curiously reluctant to help. Helen Baxendale and David Seddon star as the detective duo.
Resistance - Midsummer, and 150,000 revellers are partying at the Solstice music festival. But then people start to get sick with a mystery illness: one that's highly contagious and seemingly resistant to antibiotics.... Gina McKee stars in this chilling, apocalyptic drama.
I Remember Yesterday - A young woman haunts Edinburgh's alleyways, seeking revenge to the '70s strains of Donna Summer. Hannah Donaldson reads this spine-chilling ghost story.
Same Crime, Next Year - Set in Harrogate, this gripping tale imagines the fallout from the torrid affair of two crime writers. Read by Siobhan Redmond.
Text copyright © Val McDermid 1995 (Clean Break), 2003 (The Distant Echo), 2011 (Village SOS), 2013 (I Remember Yesterday), 2016 (Same Crime, Next Year), 2017 (Resistance).
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- kathryn W
- 2023-06-22
Val McDermid a BBC radio collection
A romping good read of short stories with little twists and turns. Quite captivating and well written.
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