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Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

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: Dead Clever

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John Hollingworth

Jane Hazlegrove

Jonathan Keeble

Helen Kay

Gemma North

Nitin Kundra

Justine Potter

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DCI Alma Blair: Dead Clever: Episode 2

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Dead Clever

BBC Radio 4 Extra - DCI Alma Blair, Dead Clever, Episode 2

DCI Alma Blair has no shortage of suspects lining up to share their motives.

DCI Alma Blair has no shortage of suspects lining up to share their motives for the murder of the Cecil Rhodes Professor of Geography.

Val McDermid's comedy crime drama series, starring Julie Hesmondhalgh as DCI Alma Blair and John Hollingworth as DS Jason Trotter.

In episode 2, the news that the Cecil Rhodes Professor of Geography has been beaten to death by his own antique globe is not, as you might suppose, an occasion of deep mourning within the department. Rather, it has provoked a fever of speculation among his colleagues. 

But for Detective Chief Inspector Alma Blair, only one question matters. Whodunit?

There's no shortage of suspects lining up to share their motives.

Written by Val McDermid
Sound Designer and Engineer: Eloise Whitmore

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

DCI Alma Blair: Dead Clever

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Comedy crime drama by Val McDermid featuring murder in a north of England university

Comedy crime drama by Val McDermid. DCI Alma Blair and DS Jason Trotter investigate murder in a university in the north of England

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