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Saturday Drama: Classic Chandler

Toby Stephens

Lorelei King

Stephen Campbell Moore

Laurel Lefkow

Peter Polycarpou

Sasha Pick

Gerard McDermott

James Lailey

Alun Raglan

Sean Baker

Carl Prekopp

Simon Bubb

Sasha Yevtushenko

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Robert B. Parker

Saturday Drama: Classic Chandler: Episode 8: Poodle Springs

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Episode 8

Episode 8: Poodle Springs

Poodle Springs

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, Classic Chandler, Poodle Springs

Post-honeymoon, life as a kept man wears thin for Marlowe.

Post-honeymoon, life as a kept man wears thin for Marlowe who cannot resist when he is given a case to solve. Stars Toby Stephens.

By Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
Dramatised by Robin Brooks

Fresh from his honeymoon with heiress Linda Loring, Philip Marlowe has set up shop in the upmarket Californian town of Poodle Springs. But the life of a kept man soon loses its charm, and when he's asked to find a gambler on the run from his debts, Marlowe can't resist. Toby Stephens plays iconic detective Philip Marlowe.

The eighth and final Philip Marlowe novel, Raymond Chandler's Poodle Springs was unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1959. It remained so for another 30 years, until crime writer Robert B. Parker completed the novel to mark the centenary of Chandler's birth.

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
Produced by Claire Grove.

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