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Test Room Eight

4. Interlude in Manchester

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for 8 months

Philip Odell goes in pursuit of the elusive Mrs Truscott.

He's shocked when he discovers her identity...

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
Fred Fazackerly .... David March
Wynn Craxton .... Jeffrey Segal
Barbara Eurich .... Stella Textor
Hugh Chalk .... David Spenser
Mr Russell .... James Thomason
Paula .... Beryl Calder

Producer: David H Godfrey

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

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