John Dryden: BBC Radio Drama Collection
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A collection of four full cast BBC radio trilogies, written and directed by John Dryden.
A Tokyo Murder
'The Parents': Jennifer and Peter Whitelock arrive in Japan to help find their daughter's murderer. Frustrated with the slow progress of the police investigation, Peter puts his trust in TV producer Norio Ito, who promises to champion their cause on his popular 'news and entertainment' show, while Jennifer tries to discover what her daughter's life in Tokyo was like. Then she starts getting calls from a man claiming to be the killer....
'The Detective': Detective Inspector Julie Hill is sent to Tokyo to investigate the disappearance of British teacher Daisy Whitelock. Working with the Tokyo police, who are reluctant to have a foreign police officer interfering with the case, she has to overcome cultural and bureaucratic obstacles as she attempts to untangle what really happened at the foreign language school Daisy taught at.
'The Daughter': Daisy Whitelock arrives in Japan to teach English at a foreign language school in Tokyo. Her desire to scratch beneath the surface of Japanese society leads her to shun the companionship of the other ex-pat teachers in her shared apartment, and exposes her to the terrifying reality of a disturbed mind.
Daisy Whitelock - Sophie Cartman
Jennifer Whitelock - Lynne Hobday
Peter Whitelock - Martin Burns
Norio Ito - Ryuji Yoshimura
Julie Hill - Rachel Ferguson
Assistant Inspector Takasugi - Takuya Matsumoto
Superintendent Yamagawa - Teruhiko Nakajima
Alex - Michael Naishtut
Brie - Erika Hirokawa
Akira Takahashi - Nariyasu Kato
Written by John Dryden and Miriam Smith
The production was recorded in Tokyo, Japan.
Directed by John Dryden.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008
Severed Threads
Three lives on three continents connected by one event. A young British schoolboy obsessed with school massacres, a radio journalist in India on the trail of a scoop for the BBC, and the boss of an American church-owned clothing firm. At first the three lives seem totally unconnected, but as the threads unravel they become tangled in a shocking heap of child labour, abuse and murder.
US Cast
Ruth - Marsha Dietlein
Faith - Amanda Scot Ellis
Pastor McGiven - Tom Tammi
Kyle - Matt Bennett
Sheila - Janet Foster
News Anchor - John Leonard Thompson
Billy - Jacob Knoll
Harry - Craig Bockhorn
Casey/Waitress - Felicity Jones
Prison Priest - Miles Chapin
India Cast
Rahul - Ankur Vikal
Amit - Vijay Yadav
Amit's mother - Ayesha Raza
Amit's brother - Sagar Shinde
Welfare Officers - Veruschka Menon, Pushan Kripalani
Dr Khunna - Shaikh Sami Usman
Factory Owner - Kenneth Desai
Factory Workers - Rupa Kasbe, Jyoti Reddy, Shabana Sheikh, Rita John, Neeta Chavan, Eisy T. John, Pramod Yedke and children from the Akanksa Foundation, Mumbai.
UK Cast
Fiona - Natasha Little
Timms - Henry Goodman
Elgood - Francois Testory
Jones - Gethin Anthony
Psychologist - Kate Fitzgerald
Travel Agent - Joanne Ferguson
Heyward - Daniel Bridle
Boy - Callum Francis
Written and directed by John Dryden.
The production was recorded on location in the USA, India, and the UK.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010
Pandemic
Dr Jan Roldanus, a microbiologist and WHO advisor on infectious diseases, arrives in Bangkok to give a keynote lecture at a medical conference. Whilst there, he is invited to observe the local authority's handling of an outbreak of bird flu. But when a new virulent strain, 'Red Eye', emerges - causing bleeding eyes followed by death - he finds himself trapped in Thailand, unable to fly home to his wife and son. As the virus spreads at a terrifying pace, his investigations lead him to one inescapable and terrible conclusion...
Dr Jan Roldanus - Ben Daniels
Kanya - Sasapin Siriwanij
Dr Ahmai - Pawit Mahasarinand
Minister Laksan - Danai Thiangdham
Sumi - Jaturachai Srichanwanpen
Written and directed by John Dryden.
The production was recorded on location in Thailand and the UK.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012
The Reluctant Spy
In Cairo against a backdrop of the "Arab Spring", hard-up Coptic art expert Duncan Kavanagh scrapes a living as a private English language tutor and by showing tourists around the ancient churches of Cairo. He lives with his feisty, politically-aware, 15-year-old daughter Ola, who is half-Egyptian, in a modest flat they can barely afford. Since the revolution, the situation has become ever harder for Duncan with tourists in short supply. When approached by seductive Canadian student Tara Moore to deliver a letter (for money) to a prominent Egyptian politician whose son Duncan teaches, he accepts. It's a decision that will solve his short-term financial problems but embroil him in a complex web of secrets and misinformation and a struggle for his own and his daughter's survival.
Duncan - Nigel Lindsay
Ola - Aiysha Hart
Tara - Sarah Goldberg
Al-Basiri - Philip Arditti
Dr Zacoutte - Raad Rawiha
Amr - Jonathan Bonnici
Hameed - Karim Saleh
Randa - Saba Sirene
Kamal - Jude Edriss
Karl - Rufus Wright
Mrs Darwish - Baris Cerliloglu
Mrs Zacoutte - Myriam Acharki
Policeman - Nayef Rashed
Written and directed by John Dryden.
The production was recorded on location in Egypt and the UK.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013
- The Daughter (0Mb)
- The Detective (0Mb)
- The Parents (0Mb)
- God’s Clothing Firm (0Mb)
- If Thy Hand Offend Thee (0Mb)
- The Reckoning (0Mb)
- The Present (0Mb)
- The Future (0Mb)
- The Past (0Mb)
- The Delivery (0Mb)
- Death of a Friend (0Mb)
- Out of Control (0Mb)
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