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15 Minute Drama

The Private Patient

Episode 7

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

PD James's latest Dalgliesh mystery, dramatised by Neville Teller.

A second death has occurred at Cheverell Manor, the exclusive clinic in Dorset where Dalgliesh and his team are investigating the death of a journalist. Kate and Benton take a trip to London to find out more about the second victim.

The Private Patient is the latest in the long-running Dalgliesh series, and the first to be dramatised on radio before television. The entire serial will be released on CD by BBCAudiobooks in June, and repeated on Radio 7 in August as part of a PD James season.

The dramatiser is Neville Teller, who also dramatised the previous Dalgliesh serial featuring Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew, A Taste For Death.

Narrator. . . . . Carolyn Pickles
Dalgliesh . . . . . Richard Derrington
Kate Miskin . . . . . Deborah McAndrew
Benton-Smith . . . . . Johndeep More
Lettie Frensham . . . . . Kate Layden
Marcus Westhall . . . . .Adrian Grove
Jeremy Coxon . . . . . Mark Carey
Candace Westhall . . . . . Alison Pettitt

Dramatised by Neville Teller

Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild. Show less

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