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Zubin Varla

David Westhead

Lanre Malaolu

Lorna Gayle

Ben Crowe

Adjoa Andoh

Ian Conningham

Monty d'Inverno

Shaun Mason

John Rowe

Cyril Nri

Anna Madeley

Nicholas Pinnock

Sam Dale

Leonardo Padura

Jennifer Howarth

Mary Peate

Saturday Drama: The Havana Quartet by Leonardo Padura: Havana Black

Havana Black

The Havana Quartet by Leonardo Padura

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Leonardo Padura's award-winning Cuban detective series featuring Lieutenant Mario Conde.

Lieutenant Conde’s suspension is lifted so he can cover the case of a Cuban émigré who has disappeared. Starring Zubin Varla.

by Leonardo Padura
dramatised by Joy Wilkinson
 
Lieutenant Mario Conde has been suspended for taking a well-deserved pop at a fellow officer. But Major Rangel is short of staff and has to call Conde in for a case involving the disappearance of a Cuban with U.S. citizenship who has come home to visit his family. The final story in the Havana Quartet. 
 
Cast:
 
Mario Conde ..... Zubin Varla
Rangel ..... David Westhead
Manolo ..... Lanre Malaolu
Josefina ..... Lorna Gayle
Skinny ..... Ben Crowe
Tamara  .....  Adjoa Andoh
Andres  .....  Ian Conningham
Rabbit  .....  Monty D'Inverno
Fermin  .....  Shaun Mason
Friguens/ Alfonso Forcade .....  John Rowe
Gomez  .....  Cyril Nri
Miriam ......  Anna Madeley
Adrian .....  Nicholas Pinnock
Molina ....  Sam Dale
 
directed by Mary Peate

Leonardo Padura is a novelist and journalist who was born in 1955 in Havana where he still lives. He has published a number of short-story collections and literary essays but he is best known internationally for the Havana Quartet series, all featuring Inspector Mario Conde.

In 1998, Padura won the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers and in 2012, he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award.

Saturday Drama: The Havana Quartet by Leonardo Padura

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