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Daunt and Dervish

Drama: Crime

Former spies Josephine Daunt and Susan Dervish set up a detective agency

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Daunt and Dervish: Series 1

Daunt and Dervish: Series 1: Episode 2: South of the Border

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Episode 2: South of the Border

South of the Border

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Daunt and Dervish, Series 1, South of the Border

The detective duo rescue a drowning woman, only to discover she is not what she seems.

The detective duo rescue a drowning woman, only to discover she is not what she seems. Stars Imelda Staunton and Anna Massey.

Daunt and Dervish have established their detective agency and there's a steady flow of business, in the days just after the end of the Second World War.

But their lives really become exciting when they rescue a woman from drowning, discover she is not at all what she seems, and find themselves involved in the more shady side of life at the race track.

Stars Imelda Staunton as Josephine Daunt, Anna Massey as Susan Dervish, Bill Patterson as Bill Mackie and Bill Nighy as Ted Sharping.
 
Format by Imelda Staunton and Anna Massey.  Written by Guy Meredith.
 
Producer: Cherry Cookson.  Director: Janet Whitaker.
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.

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After the Second World War ends, former spies Josephine Daunt and Susan Dervish, played by Anna Massey and Imelda Staunton respectively, set up a detective agency

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