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Stand By For West

Inspector West at Home

6. Clue from a Captive

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

'Whistler’ Malone may be in a police cell but this case is far from sewn up.

As Chief Inspector Roger West says, it's got more twists than a corkscrew.

Starring Patrick Allen as Scotland Yard’s youngest, smartest chief inspector.

Created and written by John Creasey.

Dramatised by Maurice Travers.

Chief Inspector Roger West … Patrick Allen
Janet West .… Sarah Lawson
Superintendent Abbott .… Grant Taylor
Inspector Bob Cornish .… Frederick Treves
‘Whistler’ Malone .… Rio Fanning
Assistant Commissioner Sir Guy Chatsworth .… Maurice Hedley

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1968. Show less

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