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Dramatisations of CJ Sansom's Tudor crime novels.

Dramatisations of CJ Sansom's Tudor crime novels, featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake.

15 Minute Drama: CJ Sansom - Dissolution

Jason Watkins

Mark Bonnar

Joseph Arkley

Patrick Brennan

Sam Dale

Sam Alexander

CJ Sansom

Kirsteen Cameron

Shardlake: Dissolution: Episode 1

Dissolution

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Shardlake, Dissolution, Episode 1

Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate a killing at a monastery.

4 Extra Debut. Tudor lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is sent by Cromwell to probe the killing of a King's Commissioner. Stars Jason Watkins.

C J Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for radio by Colin MacDonald.


London, 1537. As he plots to bring down the Abbeys, Thomas Cromwell sends his trusted lawyer-detective, Matthew Shardlake, to investigate the murder of a King's Commissioner in a monastery on the south coast of Kent. Which of the terrified monks is the murderer - and can Shardlake catch him before he strikes again?


Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron.

Shardlake: Dissolution

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Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate a killing at a monastery

CJ Sansom's Tudor murder mystery. Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is sent by Cromwell to investigate the killing of a King's Commissioner at a monastery on the Kent coast. Stars Jason Watkins

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