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Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black

Drama: Thriller

Scarlet on Black

22/04/2006

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What links a kidnapping and events in Algeria 30 years ago? Stars David Calder.

What links a kidnapping and events in Algeria 30 years ago? Roger Danes' political thriller set in Paris. Stars David Calder.

Fast-moving thriller set in 1990s Paris. Prison official Yvette Lalande is kidnapped on her way to work by a notorious group of terrorists. But what is the link to events in Algeria thirty years before? It appears 'someone in authority' has good reason to hamper Commissaire Grosset's police investigations. 

Starring David Calder as Commissaire Grosset, Peter Jeffrey as Michel Corbillard, Alex Jennings as Jean Lenoir, Patti Holloway as Yvette Lalande and Natasha Pyne as Danielle Lesueur. 

Scripted by Roger Danes 

Directed by Glyn Dearman 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.

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