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Lady in a Fog

1. Presenting Philip Odell

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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Philip Odell is a hard-nosed Irish-American private eye, who worked for the American secret service during the Second World War.

When his friend Heather O'Mara reveals her brother has been killed, she asks him to investigate.

With London under a thick pea soup fog, his probe begins…

Starring Robert Beatty.

Vintage thriller serial by Lester Powell in eight parts.

Philip Odell ....Robert Beatty
Heather McMara .... Sheila Manahan
Marilyn Peters .... June Tobin
Christopher Hampden .... James Thomason
Parkin .... Harold Reese
Martin Sorrowby .... John Bennett
Barman …. Ronald Baddiley
Mrs Cantaloup .... Betty Baskcomb
Receptionist .... Joan Matheson

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1958. Show less

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