The Blackburn Files

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

Drama: Crime

Fine Time Fontayne stars as Stephen J Blackburn, ex-pitman turned private investigator

Stephen J Blackburn is an ex-pitman turned private investigator. Comic drama, written by Dave Sheasby, Ian McMillan and Martyn Wiley. Stars Fine Time Fontayne

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The Blackburn Files: Series 1: 2. A Case of Parma Violets

2. A Case of Parma Violets

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Blackburn Files, Series 1, 2. A Case of Parma Violets

When a woman suspects her husband is having an affair, she calls in Stephen J Blackburn.

When a woman suspects her husband is having an affair, she calls in investigator Stephen J Blackburn. Stars Fine Time Fontayne.

Trailing her own distinctive perfume, Betty Shuttleworth suspects her husband's having an affair...
 
So she turns to ex-pitman turned private investigator Stephen J Blackburn. 

Starring Fine Time Fontayne and Judy Flynn.

Written by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby.

Stephen J Blackburn …… Finetime Fontayne
Tracey …… Judy Flynn

With:

Rita May
Vanessa Rosenthal
Christine Cox
Gerry Kersey
Anne Rye. 

Directed for BBC North East by Dave Sheasby 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1989.

The Blackburn Files: Series 1

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Fine Time Fontayne stars as Stephen J Blackburn, ex-pitman turned private investigator, in the comic drama

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