Whose Body?

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Wimsey

Drama: Crime

Adaptations of Dorothy L Sayers' gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey.

Adaptations of Dorothy L Sayers' gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey. With Ian Carmichael

Wimsey: Whose Body?: 1. The Body in the Bath

1. The Body in the Bath

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Amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is called to a flat in Battersea to inspect a dead body.

Amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey heads to Battersea for a suspicious death. Dorothy L Sayers' mystery with Ian Carmichael.

Amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is called to Battersea following the alarming discovery in an architect's bathroom...  

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Whose Body? was first published in 1923

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975

Dramatised in five episodes by Chris Miller. 

Lord Peter Wimsey    ......    Ian Carmichael 
Bunter    ......    Peter Jones 
Dowager Duchess    ......    Patricia Routledge 
Mr Phipp    ......    Norman Bird 
Inspector Parker    ......    Gabriel Woolf
Mrs Phipps    ......    Betty Huntley-Wright 
Inspector Sugg    ......    Stephen Thorne

Producer: Simon Brett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1973.

Wimsey: Whose Body?

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Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the mystery of a body in a Battersea bathtub.

Suave sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey probes the mystery of a corpse in a Battersea bathtub. Dorothy L Sayer's whodunnit starring Ian Carmichael.

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