Fourble

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All four series of the murder mystery game played by people whose business is murder.


Written and chaired by Simon Brett (author of the hugely popular Charles Paris series), this intriguing, interactive panel show challenges professional crime novelists to put their experience and expertise to the test as they try to unravel various mind-bending murder mysteries.


Each episode contains a mini-drama featuring a death and a denouement - with various red herrings and misdirections along the way. As the murder scenario is described and the clues laid out, our writer-detectives take turns cross-examining the suspects. After receiving the latest police updates, it's time to decide whodunit - but will the panellists correctly identify the perpetrator, or have they been cunningly led astray? We find out in the Foul Play 'Foul Playlet', in which the truth is revealed....


All the victims, suspects, witnesses and police officers are consummately played by actors Lee Simpson and Maria McErlane (who part-improvise their roles based on the information they've been given), while the guest investigators include Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Lindsey Davis, HRF Keating, PD James, Reginald Hill, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Frances Fyfield, John Harvey, Stella Duffy, Lady Antonia Fraser and Minette Walters. Among the baffling cases they tackle are a dead Dowager Duchess, a 1930s murder at sea, a pantomime crime, a monastery mystery and an Elizabethan court killing.


Devised, written and chaired by Simon Brett
Produced by Ann Jobson and Liz Anstee
Actors: Lee Simpson and Maria McErlane


Series 1 panellists: Liza Cody, Susan Moody, John Harvey, Margaret Yorke, Lindsey Davis, Val McDermid, PD James, HRF Keating, Lady Antonia Fraser, Reginald Hill, Ruth Dudley Edwards and Simon Shaw


Series 2 panellists: Tim Heald, Jessica Mann, Frances Fyfield, Minette Walters, Sarah Dunant, Keith Miles, Paula Gosling, Peter N Walker, Robert Barnard, Caroline Graham, Gavin Lyall and Anthony Price


Series 3 panellists: Lady Antonia Fraser, Anthony Price, PD James, HRF Keating, Susan Moody, Simon Shaw, Liza Cody, Reginald Hill, John Harvey, Val McDermid, Frances Fyfield and Peter N Walker


Series 4 panellists: Ruth Dudley Edwards, Robert Richardson, Jean McConnell, Keith Miles, Jessica Mann, James Melville, Tim Heald, Margaret Yorke, Robert Barnard, Lindsey Davis, Ian Rankin and Stella Duffy


First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 7 November-12 December 1996 (Series 1), 27 February-3 April 1997 (Series 2), 18 December 1997-22 January 1998 (Series 3), 11 September -16 October 1998 (Series 4)

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1. The Murder at Albington Towers (403 forbidden)
2. The Corpse in the Car Park (403 forbidden)
3. Death at the Dig (403 forbidden)
4. Adventure of the Murdered Heiress (403 forbidden)
5. The Body at the Book Launch (403 forbidden)
6. Dead Broads Don't Talk (403 forbidden)
7. A Murdered Reputation (403 forbidden)
8. The Body on the Base Line (403 forbidden)
9. Daytime Death (403 forbidden)
10. The Widow's Last Cruise (403 forbidden)
11. Another Dead Don (403 forbidden)
12. Corpse Who Stayed Out in the Cold (403 forbidden)
13. Death By a Short Head (403 forbidden)
14. The Proof of the Pudding (403 forbidden)
15. Oh Yes She Is Dead (403 forbidden)
16. Murder Before Matins (403 forbidden)
17. Commercial Death (403 forbidden)
18. Death in Intensive Care (403 forbidden)
19. Deadline News (403 forbidden)
20. Much Ado About Murder (403 forbidden)
21. The Final Judgement (403 forbidden)
22. Death and Two Copies, Please (403 forbidden)
23. Murder for Starters (403 forbidden)
24. Dead as a Parrot (403 forbidden)

MP3 files hosted by archive.org.