He Died With His Eyes Open

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Burn Gorman

Toby Jones

Tanya Franks

Ben Crowe

Michael Bertenshaw

Christine Absalom

Sean Murray

Ed Thorpe

Will Howard

Sasha Yevtushenko

Nick Perry

Derek Raymond

He Died With His Eyes Open: 1. Press Play

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Dramatisation of the cult London-set crime novel. Stars Burn Gorman and Toby Jones.

4 Extra Debut. Detective Burn Gorman investigates a brutal murder in 1980s London.  Stars Burn Gorman, Toby Jones and Tanya Franks.

Burn Gorman plays a detective investigating a brutal murder in 1980s London. 

He has little to go on except for the cassette diaries left by the victim, played by Toby Jones. 

Fragments of his life, recorded at different times, punch through into the present, and supply the detective with elusive clues to the true nature of the man's fate.

Derek Raymond's cult-crime novel first published in 1976.

Dramatised in three parts by Nick Perry.

The Detective . . . . . Burn Gorman
Staniland . . . . . Toby Jones
Barbara . . . . . Tanya Franks
Bowman . . . . . Ben Crowe
Grampian . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw
Betty . . . . . Christine Absalom
Landlord . . . . . Sean Murray
Pathologist . . . . . Ed Thorpe
Scar . . . . . Will Howard

Sound design by Caleb Knightley

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.

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Nick Perry adapts Derek Raymond's cult crime novel set in 1980s London.

Nick Perry adapts Derek Raymond's cult crime novel set in 1980s London. A detective investigates a brutal murder, but has little to go on except for the cassette diaries.

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