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Saturday Drama

The Martin Beck Killings

Episode 3: The Man on the Balcony

Duration: 1 hour

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

by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
translated by Alan Blair
Dramatised by Katie Hims

Someone is assaulting and killing young girls in the parks of Stockholm. With only a brutal mugger and a three year-old boy for witnesses, the investigation is stalling. It's only a tiny detail surfacing in Beck's mind that puts the murder squad on the trail of the killer, but will they get him before he strikes again?

Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Mary Peate. Show less

Contributors

Narrator 1:
Lesley Sharp
Narrator 2:
Nicholas Gleaves
Martin Beck:
Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg:
Neil Pearson
Gunvald Larsson:
Ralph Ineson
Frederik Melander:
Adrian Scarborough
Karin Carlsson:
Beth Goddard
Lena Oskarsson:
Katie Angelou
Ingrid Oskarsson:
Susie Riddell
Bo Oskarsson:
Greta Dudgeon
Mrs Andersson:
Christine Absalom
Wilheim Engstrom:
Patrick Brennan
Officer Kvant:
Sam Alexander
Officer Kristiansson:
Don Gilet
Ingemund Fransson:
Robert Blythe
Lundgren:
Joe Sims
Lisbeth:
Amaka Okafor
Writer:
Per Wahloo
Writer:
Katie Hims
Director:
Mary Peate

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