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Saturday-Night Theatre: Abracadaver

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The novel by Peter Lovesey dramatised for radio by Geoffrey M. Matthews
with Frank Windsor as Det-Sgt Cribb and John Hollis as Constable Thackeray
CRIBB: Thackeray... Your spare time... Spend much of it in the music-hall?
THACKERAY: Music-hall Sarge? No! I'm more of a melodrama man meself.
CRIBB: But you have been inside a music-hall?
THACKERAY: I've had to... But it's not my cup of tea.
CRIBB: From now on it's going to be...
Cribb and Thackeray investigate a series of 'accidents' in the Victorian music-halls and discover a palace of entertainment where a murder takes place.

Contributors

Author:
Peter Lovesey
Dramatised by:
Geoffrey M. Matthews
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Det-Sgt Cribb:
Frank Windsor
Constable Thackeray:
John Hollis
Music-hall barker:
Alan Dudley
Lola Pinkus:
Jane Knowles
Bella Pinkus:
Helen Worth
Jason:
William Eedle
Education Officer:
Douglas Blackwell
Woolston:
Rolf Lefebvre
Woman pie-seller:
Olwen Griffiths
Mum:
Margot Boyd
Albert:
Nigel Anthony
Major Chick:
Peter Bathurst
Source: Radio Times

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