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The Interrogation

Drama: Crime

Roy Williams' hard-hitting crime drama, probing some of today's most complex moral issues.

Roy Williams' hard-hitting contemporary crime drama in which suspects are subjected to a grilling from DCI Max Matthews (Kenneth Cranham) and DS Sean Armitage (Alex Lanipekun).

Afternoon Drama: The Interrogation - Series 2

Kenneth Cranham

Alex Lanipekun

Ben Crowe

Philippa Stanton

Hannah Wood

David Pickvance

Jessica Dromgoole

Roy Williams

The Interrogation: Series 2: Episode 1: Marc

The Interrogation - Series 2

Episode 1

Episode 1: Marc

Series 2

Marc

BBC Radio 4 - The Interrogation, Series 2, Marc

Max and Sean investigate the case of an ex-colleague suspected of domestic violence.

DS Max Mathews returns from bereavement leave to rejoin DC Sean Armitage to investigate the case of an ex-colleague suspected of domestic violence.

by Roy Williams

1/3 The Story of Marc. DS Max Mathews returns from bereavement leave to rejoin DC Sean Armitage doing what they do best. An ex-colleague, Marc, is suspected of domestic violence, but while Sean is maybe too close to the case, Max has an uncanny insight into the crime.

Music by David Pickvance
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole


This is another chance to hear the second series of Roy Williams' hard hitting dramas of modern crime. Critical acclaim for the first series included this, in the Spectator...

He writes about the stuff you'd rather not know, prefer not to think about, pretend to ignore. But it lives on with you in the mind. It won't let you go. By his words, the sharp, brittle, spot-on dialogue, he forces you to recognise the limitations of your experience, your understanding. It's not the story outline that matters, but the characterisation, the way the people speak, the language they use. Each of the characters is so clearly differentiated you know exactly what they look like without a detail being given to us. Through the conversation, the interaction, we gather in the back story, we get the gist. There are no easy answers. It's life, messy life, the life we'd rather not think about as we listen to the radio, doing the ironing, making marmalade, cocooned mostly from the nasty, brutish world dealt with by others on our behalf.

Kate Chisholm.

The Interrogation: Series 2

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