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Inspector Purbright - Lonelyheart 4122

4. Commander

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for 12 months

Lucy Teatime meets the Commander - Lonelyheart 4122.

But is she the naïve party that she makes out?

Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles.

Why are lonely, well-off middle-aged women disappearing from the sleepy, small market town?

John Rowe stars as Inspector Walter Purbright.

Dramatised by Christopher Denys.

Inspector Purbright .... John Rowe
Lucy Teatime, .... Linda Gardner
Detective Sergeant Love .... Paul Downing
Jack Trelawney .... John Branwell
Maddox .... Peter Rylands
Receptionist .... Victoria Finney
Miss Huddlestone .... Daphne Oxenford
Maisie .... Susan Sheridan

Directed at BBC Manchester by: Tony Cliff.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990. Show less

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