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The Saturday Play: Foreign Bodies: The Laughing Policeman

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Dramatised by Bert Coules from the novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, one of a hugely successful series of Swedish detective novels featuring Detective Superintendent Martin Beck, the Scandinavian Inspector Morse.
One stormy and rain-soaked night, the driver and all eight passengers on a city-centre bus in Stockholm are gunned down in their seats. What possible motive could there be for such an act? And what was an ambitious young police detective doing on the bus, fully armed, when he was supposed to be on leave?
Director Bruce Young

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Bert Coules
Novel By:
Maj Sjowall
Novel By:
Per Wahloo
Director:
Bruce Young
Det Supt Beck:
Crawford Logan
DI Kollberg:
Richard Greenwood
Einar:
Gregor Powrie
Gustav:
John Stahl
Asa:
Vicki Uddelle
Gudrun:
Noreen Leighton
Blonde:
Eliza Langland
Henrique:
Simon Tait

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