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Crimes of Mancunia

23/06/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Crimes of Mancunia

By Michael Symmons Roberts. A noir crime drama in verse. Starring Jason Done.

Michael Symmons Roberts' atmospheric noir drama in verse. Set in Manchester's exciting underworld of police, informants and criminals. Starring Jason Done and Sinead Keenan.

Criminals' loved ones are being kidnapped around Manchester. When the kidnapper starts asking for very specific amounts of ransom money, word soon spreads that he is an ex-cop with a dangerous grudge against the criminal community. DCI Lise Lazard and DI Mikey Finn take up the case before time runs out for the kidnapper's victims. A noir drama in verse by Michael Symmons Roberts.

Producer: Charlotte Riches
Director: Susan Roberts.

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