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Test Room Eight

3. The Man in the Grey Hat

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for 9 months

Philip Odell investigates a second suspicious death at the beleaguered pharmaceutical plant.

Starring Robert Beatty.

Lester Powell’s cool Irish investigator Philip Odell features in ten BBC radio dramas broadcast between 1947 and 1961.

His feisty, long-suffering assistant, Heather McMara is always on hand with her "female intuition".

Philip Odell .... Robert Beatty
Heather McMara .... Sheila Manahan
Coroner .... John Cazabon
Superintendent Manley .... Edward Jewesbury
Wynn Craxton .... Jeffrey Segal
Martin Dersen .... Rolf Lefebvre
Mr Twist .... Frank Windsor
Hugh Chalk .... David Spenser
Barbara Eurich .... Stella Textor
Herbert Truscott .... Hamilton Dyce

Producer: David H Godfrey

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1959. Show less

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