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The Monday Play: The Big Sleep

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The first of a new monthly series of five Raymond Chandler novels dramatised for radio by Bill Morrison.
With Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe and Robert Beatty as General Sternwood.

California 1939

(Rptd: next Sunday 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Raymond Chandler
Dramatised by:
Bill Morrison
Musical Research:
Adrian Edwards
Director:
John Tydeman
Philip Marlowe:
Ed Bishop
General Sternwood:
Robert Beatty
Carmen Sternwood:
Liza Ross
Vivian Regan:
Diana Olsson
Agnes:
Nicolette McKenzie
Bernie Ohls:
Harry Towb
Eddie Mars:
Paul Maxwell
Joe Brody:
Blain Fairman
Carl Lundgren:
Weston Gavin
Taggart Wilde:
Rod Beacham
Harry Jones:
Don Fellows
Canino:
Peter Marinker
Mona:
Irene Sutcliffe
Capt Cronjager:
Henry Knowles
Art Huck:
Malcolm Gerard
A hood:
Walter Hall
Source: Radio Times

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