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Saturday Drama: CS Forester's London Noir: The Pursued

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The Pursued

CS Forester's London Noir

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, CS Forester's London Noir, The Pursued

1935, Peckham: A grieving mother is determined to exact revenge for her daughter's murder.

1935, Peckham: Revenge becomes an obsession for an elderly lady when her daughter is found dead. Starring Sophie Thompson.

1935: When Marjorie finds Dorothy, her pretty young sister, lying dead with her head in the oven, the obvious assumption is suicide. 

But the girl's mother, Mrs Clair, a tough-minded woman is not convinced. She believes that Dorothy was murdered by Marjorie's cheating husband Ted. 

Unable to prove her theory, Mrs Clair begins to cook up a secret, terrible revenge...

One of three seminal psychological thrillers by CS Forester - dramatised by Paul Mendelson. 

Most famous for his Hornblower series, CS Forester wrote these thrillers at the start of his career taking crime writing in a new direction, portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous acts, and showing events spiralling terribly, chillingly, out of control.

Music composed by Gary C. Newman
Clarinet: Samantha Baldwin
Director: David Ian Neville


Saturday Drama: CS Forester's London Noir

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Psychological thrillers based on novels by the author famous for his Hornblower series.

Three psychological thrillers based on early novels by the author most famous for his Hornblower series.

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