Two rival Glasgow gang-leaders (and would-be children's authors) find themselves competing head-to-head for a prestigious literary award.

So it's up to Boxer and Doberman to stop full-scale gang warfare - especially with campaign to win "European City of Kindness".

Alastair Jessiman's gritty police comedy drama series.

Featuring grizzled old-school detective, DI Bob Boxer - and his slightly less grizzled and more instinctive young sidekick, DS Shona Doberman.

Starring Finlay Welsh and Anita Vettesse.

It's a case of Taggart meet The Naked Gun as the duo take to the road in Boxer's arthritic Austin Princess...

DI Bob Boxer ..... Finlay Welsh
DS Shona Doberman ..... Anita Vettesse
Butcher Brawley ..... James Bryce
Rosa Caputo ..... Ann Scott Jones
'The Shadow' ..... Cameron McNee
Joe Macnamarra ..... Alastair Jessiman

Other parts played by the cast.

Tougher than A Touch of Frost, madder than Midsomer Murders, grittier than a bucketful of grit, Boxer and Doberman was specially commissioned for BBC Radio 7.

Directed at BBC Scotland by David Jackson Young.

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2010. Show less