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Lesley Sharp

Nicholas Gleaves

Steven Mackintosh

Neil Pearson

Ralph Ineson

Tom Mannion

Joe Sims

Clare Corbett

Nicholas Murchie

Will Howard

Paul Mundell

Philippa Stanton

Rick Warden

Joanna Brookes

Carolyn Pickles

Sally Orrock

Hannah Wood

Michael Shelford

Robert Blythe

Maj Sjowall

Per Wahloo

Jennifer Howarth

Saturday Drama: The Martin Beck Killings: Episode 6: Murder at The Savoy

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The Martin Beck Killings

Episode 6

Episode 6: Murder at The Savoy

Murder at The Savoy

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, The Martin Beck Killings, Murder at The Savoy

The 1960s Swedish detective series Martin Beck returns with Murder at the Savoy drama.

Martin Beck, the groundbreaking 1960s Swedish detective stories that inspired a generation of crime writers returns with a dramatisation of Murder at the Savoy.

The Martin Beck books were written over ten years from 1965-75 by the Swedish husband and wife team of Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö. They featured the dogged and complex figure of D.I. Martin Beck and his colleagues in the national Police Homicide Department in Stockholm, and were written to give a realistic, unsentimental portrait of Sweden at the time: a society suffering from stifling bureaucracy and the creeping corruption of a liberal society. 

In Murder at the Savoy, Martin Beck and Lennart Kollberg are called to Malmö in Southern Sweden when an industrialist is shot whilst having dinner at the city's best hotel. There are people in high places who want the case cleared up quietly and quickly, but Beck refuses to give way to pressure.

Cast:
Narrators ..... Lesley Sharp and Nicholas Gleaves
Martin Beck ..... Steven Mackintosh
Lennart Kollberg ..... Neil Pearson
Gunvald Larsson ..... Ralph Ineson
Per Månsson ..... Tom Mannion
Zachrisson ..... Joe Sims
Åsa Torell ..... Clare Corbett
Malm ..... Nicholas Murchie
Edvarsson ..... Will Howard
Mats Linder ..... Paul Mundell
Charlotte Palmgren ..... Philippa Stanton
Bertil Svensson ..... Rick Warden
Sara Moberg ..... Joanna Brookes
Sister ..... Carolyn Pickles
Gun Kollberg ..... Sally Orrock
Helena Hansson ..... Hannah Wood
Broberg ..... Michael Shelford
Victor Palmgren ..... Robert Blythe

Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell
Directed by Sara Davies
Novels written by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
Translated by Amy and Ken Knoespel
Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth

Saturday Drama: The Martin Beck Killings

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Detective Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National Homicide Department in Stockholm

Dramatisation of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's 10-book series featuring detective Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National Police Homicide Department in Stockholm

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