Charles Paris: A Doubtful Death

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

Charles Paris: A Doubtful Death
Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
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2 Jul 2020 UK
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9781787535824
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Bill Nighy returns as the loveably louche actor-cum-amateur detective Charles Paris Charles Paris is in Oxford, appearing in a re-imagining of Hamlet by a high-concept drama company. No fan of immersive theatre, he' s unimpressed with the director' s vision and less than thrilled to be rehearsing alongside puppeteers and mime artists. But he soon finds himself back on familiar territory when the actress playing Ophelia goes missing, only to turn up dead. Did she take her own life, or was there foul play? As he amasses a list of suspects who might have wished her harm, Charles takes on the mantle of detective once more to decide if this is to be or not to be a murder case. . . Scripted for radio by Jeremy Front from a story by Simon Brett, A Doubtful Death stars Bill Nighy (Emma, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) as Charles Paris, with Suzanne Burden as Frances and Jon Glover as Maurice. Also included is an exclusive 18-minute afterword in which Jeremy Front discusses his experience of adapting an unproduced screenplay, reveals what it' s like to work with recurring characters and actors, and explains the mechanics of recording for radio. Credits Written by Jeremy Front From a story by Simon Brett Produced and directed by Sally Avens Production Coordinator- Cynthia Fagan Studio Managers- Anne Bunting, Keith Graham and Jenni Burnett Afterword produced by Ania Duggan and Roshni Radia First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 22 May-12 June 2020 Cast Charles Paris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Nighy Frances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Burden Maurice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jon Glover Vicky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Turner Jenny. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scarlett Courtney Tomasz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Conningham Tour Guide/Dan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Kirk Waitress/Izzy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucy Reynolds Zoe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Christy Siriol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sinead MacInnes Pete/Player King. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neil McCaul Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Jones Canon Park/Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clive Hayward Passenger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Courting Waitress/Sat Nav. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy Bentley-Klein Cassie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Craney Checkout/Fortinbras. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ikky Elyas Continuity R4/WS Announcer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeremy Front
Simon Brett (Author) Simon Brett was born in Worcester Park, Surrey, on 28 October 1945. He was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English and was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. After graduating in 1967 he worked as Father Christmas in a department store before landinga job at the BBC as a radio producer. During his ten years there, he worked on such programmes as The Hitchhiker' s Guide to the Galaxy, Week Ending, The Burkiss Way, I' m Sorry I Haven' t A Clue and Just a Minute. He moved to London Weekend Television in 1977, where he produced Maggie and Her, End of Part One and The Glums (a popular spin-off from radio' s Take It From Here). Brett' s first Charles Paris novel, Cast In Order of Disappearance, was published in 1975, and by 1979 he was able to leave LWT and become a full-time writer. He has written over eighty books, including nineteen Charles Paris books, fifteen Fethering Mysteries and six Mrs Pargeter novels, as well as several non-series titles such as A Shock to the System (1984), which was adapted as a film starring Michael Caine. He has also contributed to several anthologies and scripted many sitcoms for radio including No Commitments, Smelling of Roses and After Henry. Other radio work includes several one-off plays for Radio 4, and a number of episodes of the detective series Baldi. A former Chair of both the Crime Writers' Association and The Society of Authors, he is currently President of the Detection Club, as well as being involved with various writers' organisations. He is married with three children, and lives in West Sussex. Jeremy Front (Author) Jeremy Front is an award winning writer, actor and broadcaster. He studied Fine Art (Painting) at Goldsmith' s, University of London and Central St. Martin' s School of Art. His first feature length screenplay was shortlisted for the Oxford Film Foundation Prize and first theatre pieces were musical/sketch revues, co-written with his sister, Rebecca Front. Four Times Four, a collection of monologues for women was staged by the RSC in Stratford as part of their New Writing Season. Jeremy has written extensively for radio and television moving between original and adaptations in both drama and comedy. Work for BBC Radio includes the comedy series- Jack and Millie, seven series of Incredible Women (nominated BBC Audio Drama Award) in both of which he co-stars with Rebecca Front, and the long-running radio comedy series The Charles Paris Mysteries starring Bill Nighy. Jeremy has adapted and dramatized work by Graham Greene Stamboul Train, Elizabeth Gaskell Mr. Harrison' s Confession, John Meade Faulkner The Lost Stradivarius, Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Nominated and Finalist for a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award), Chekov The Duel and Evelyn Waugh' s Decline and Fall, Scoop, Brideshead Revisited and The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award). Jonathan Glover (Reader) Jonathan Glover is Director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King' s College London. his previous books include Responsibility, Causing Death and Saving Lives, What Sort of People Should There Be? and I- Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity. He chaired a European Commission Working Party on the ethics of assisted reproduction.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787535824
Published: 2 Jul 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: BBC Physical Audio
Publisher: BBC Worldwide
Format: Compact Disc
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