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Saturday Drama: The Martin Beck Killings

Steven Mackintosh

Neil Pearson

Justin Salinger

Georgia Groome

Patrick Brennan

Joe Sims

Lucy Black

Robert Blythe

Sam Alexander

Harry Livingstone

Christine Absalom

Amaka Okafor

Don Gilet

Sally Orrock

Lesley Sharp

Nicholas Gleaves

Maj Sjowall

Per Wahloo

Katie Hims

Mary Peate

Saturday Drama: The Martin Beck Killings: Episode 2: The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

Drama: Crime

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

The Martin Beck Killings

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, The Martin Beck Killings, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

Detective Inspector Beck is sent to Budapest to search for a missing journalist.

Despite being on holiday, Beck is summoned back to Stockholm, where he is sent on an unofficial and seemingly pointless mission to Budapest in search of a missing journalist.

by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
Dramatised for radio by Katie Hims.

Having just arrived on a beautiful, remote island for his much-needed Summer break with his wife and young children, Detective Inspector Beck is summoned back to Stockholm, where he is sent on a seemingly pointless and unofficial mission to Budapest, in search of a missing journalist. It is only when Beck has pretty much given up on the case that the truth finally emerges.

Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell

Directed by Mary Peate.

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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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