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The Big Sleep

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Philip Marlowe - The Big Sleep

Drama: Crime

Philip Marlowe: The Big Sleep

24/03/2007

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Philip Marlowe - The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler's private eye tackles a wealthy family's case of blackmail and murder.

Raymond Chandler's world-weary private eye tackles a wealthy family's case of blackmail - and murder. Stars Ed Bishop.

General Sternwood's daughters came in both the colours of trouble - blonde and brunette - and they had all the usual vices. 

With $4,000,000  behind them, blackmail was only a matter of time. And blackmail can be murder.

It's another case for private eye Philip Marlowe.  

Starring Ed Bishop.  

Marlowe is Raymond Chandler's cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice... 

Philip Marlowe    ……    Ed Bishop
Gen Sternwood    ……    Robert Beatty
Carmen Sternwood    ……    Liza Ross
Vivian Regan    ……    Diana Olsson
Agnes    ……    Nicolette McKenzie
Harry Jones    ……    Don Fellows
Canino    ……    Peter Marinker
Mona    ……    Irene Sutcliffe
Capt Cronjager    ……    Henry Knowles
Art Huck    ……    Malcolm Gerard

Director John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1977

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