Tom Baker stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John le Carré’s powerful thriller.In the third year of perestroika, London publisher Barley Blair is sent a manuscript from...

On the most secret and dangerous assignment of their lives, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are sent into the newborn Soviet Union to rescue the Romanovs: Nicholas and Alexandra and their innocent...

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few days' holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram's Hotel, a dignified, unostentatious establishment tucked...

Gossip in tiny Linchester is raised to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the night of his beautiful wife's birthday party. The whole neighbourhood was there, witness to the horrible...

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...

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this story, part of the fifth collection from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.

Holmes has retired to the...

English literature’s first and greatest superhero, Sherlock Holmes still fascinates readers more than 100 years after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the beloved detective. In this, the first...

He was head of an international drugs ring, a kidnapper and a ruthless killer. One night British Sea Harriers reduced his Beirut headquarters to rubble and his evil empire to ruins. But Abdul...

Derek Franklin is an injured jockey. The last fence at Cheltenham has left him on crutches. But his brother’s death means even bigger trouble. He inherits a jewellery business, a mistress –...

Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet and ordinary, they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise....

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley.This dramatisation, set in London in the...

Sarah Fortune’s surname has visited her domestic arrangements—an ex-lover has bequeathed her a flat in London’s Fitzrovia. Here she lives alone, unfettered by her past career as a lawyer,...

Chicago. A biological weapon is set off in the subway and quickly spreads through the city's west side. Michael Kelly PI goes into the subway with a team trained in microbial forensics...

Superintendent Judy Hammer is at her wits' end trying to protect the public from the politicians - and vice versa. An island off the coast of Virginia declares UDI - claiming its independence lies...

The fourth volume in the M.C. Beaton mystery series, starring Penelope Keith.'The Wizard of Evesham'. Agatha is alarmed when her new wizard of a hairdresser seems keen to take on more than...