Mr Hatch finds that his electric curtains have a downside, as Councillor Crispin will prove.

Colin Watson's gripping serial about vice and violence stirring beneath the surface of the market town of Flaxborough.

John Rowe stars as Inspector Walter Purbright.

Dramatised by Christopher Denys.

Inspector Purbright …. John Rowe
Sergeant Love …. Paul Downing
Chubb …. Geoffrey Banks
Tudor …. David Fleeshman
Lucy Teatime …. Ann Rye
Hatch …. Harry Kirkham
Baxter …. Peter Rylands
Amis …. Daniel Coll

Director: Tony Cliff

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1993. Show less