He Died With His Eyes Open

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Burn Gorman

Toby Jones

Tanya Franks

Ben Crowe

Jamie Foreman

Priyanga Burford

Will Howard

Sean Murray

Michael Bertenshaw

Sasha Yevtushenko

Nick Perry

Derek Raymond

He Died With His Eyes Open: 2. Empathy

He Died with His Eyes Open

2. Empathy

BBC Radio 4 Extra - He Died With His Eyes Open, 2. Empathy

The detective gets drawn ever closer to the murder victim's plight. Stars Toby Jones

The detective investigating Staniland's brutal murder gets drawn ever closer to the victim's plight. Stars Burn Gorman.

The detective continues his investigation into a brutal murder in 1980s London. 

Through a series of encounters with the people who knew him alive, and through the cassette tapes he left behind, the detective builds up a picture of Staniland, the 51-year-old victim whose case he is investigating, because nobody else wants to. 

It leaves him so consumed by empathy that he starts to be led down the same destructive path as the victim...

Derek Raymond's cult-crime novel. 

Dramatised Nick Perry

The Detective . . . . . Burn Gorman
Staniland . . . . . Toby Jones
Barbara . . . . . Tanya Franks
Bowman . . . . . Ben Crowe
Fenton . . . . . Jamie Foreman
Margo . . . . . Priyanga Burford
Eric . . . . . Will Howard
Bouncer . . . . . Sean Murray
Dave . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw

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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