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Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Val McDermid's comedy crime dramas starring Julie Hesmondhalgh as DCI Alma Blair.

Julie Hesmondhalgh stars as DCI Alma Blair in Val McDermid's comedy crime dramas.

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15 Minute Drama: Val McDermid - Deadheading

Julie Hesmondhalgh

John Hollingworth

Miriam Margolyes

Jonathan Keeble

Alan Rothwell

Victoria Brazier

Justine Potter

Val McDermid

DCI Alma Blair: Deadheading: Episode 1

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Deadheading

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - DCI Alma Blair, Deadheading, Episode 1

Comic capers amongst the carrots when a body is found on an allotment.

4 Extra Debut. Comic capers amongst the carrots when a body is found on an allotment. Stars Julie Hesmondhalgh and Miriam Margolyes. From June 2014.

Best selling crime writer Val McDermid turns to comedy capers among the carrots, as we rummage through the undergrowth of a murder on the allotments. Starring Julie Hesmondhalgh and Miriam Margolyes.

It's a case for Detective Chief Inspector Alma Blair, the Alpha Detective, her sergeant Jason Trotter, and Jo Blake the crime scene manager. Watch how the women behave towards each other. Rivals? Not quite. There may even be a barely detectable flirtatiousness between them.

In Episode 1 a body is found on an allotment in Cranby

Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore
Writer: Val McDermid

Directed and Produced by Justine Potter
A Savvy Production for BBC Radio 4.

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