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Test Room Eight

6. The Final Experiment

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for 8 months

Odell puts his life on the line to set a trap for the murderer.

Gripping conclusion 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
Superintendent Manley .... Edward Jewesbury
Wynn Craxton .... Jeffrey Segal
Herbert Truscott .... Hamilton Dyce
Martin Dersen .... Rolf Lefebvre
Heather McMara .... Sheila Manahan
Dent .... John Hollis
Barbara Eurich .... Stella Textor
Fred Fazackerly .... David March

Producer: David H Godfrey

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

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