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Episode 6

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George is due in court - and BBC controllers keep on plotting to axe the Director General.

Reporter George is due in court and BBC controllers plot to axe the Director General. Stars Michael Williams. From 1995.

Reporter George is due in court - while BBC controllers keep on plotting to axe the Director General.

London is plagued by a series of bizarre murders of bank managers. Hot on the trail of the killer are old-style Chief Police Inspector Frank Jefferson and BBC Radio's anarchic crime correspondent, George Cragge.

Starring Michael Williams and Barry Foster.

Mark Tavener's blackly humorous murder mystery set in the world of City finance, the BBC and political parties.

Dramatised by his novel by Mark Tavener and Peter Baynham.

George Cragge ...... Michael Williams
Frank Jefferson ...... Barry Foster
Geoffrey Crichton-Potter ...... Stephen Moore
Henry ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Max ...... Peter Woodthorpe
Controller Radio 2 ...... Stephen Fry
Controller Radio 4 ...... John Bird
Dominic De'ath ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Hercules Fortescue ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Andrew James ...... Peter Serafinowcz
Laetitia ...... Victoria Carling
Controller BBC 1 ...... Ian McNiece
Prosecution ...... Geoffrey Whitehead 
Fortescue's PA ...... Jane Slavin 

With Alice Arnold, Eva Stuart, Gavin Muir, Annabel Mullion and Richard Turner.  

Music by Paul Mottram

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995.

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Anarchic BBC reporter George Cragge probes a bizarre killing spree targeting bank managers

Anarchic BBC reporter George Cragge probes a spree of bizarre murders targeting bank managers. Adapted from Mark Tavener's novel.

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