Short Works: A Season of Murder, Mystery and Suspense

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Murder & Mystery

Drama: Thriller

Brief tales of murder, mystery and suspense, adapted especially for BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Murder & Mystery: Series 4: Ruth Rendell: Trebuchet

Ruth Rendell: Trebuchet

Series 4

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Murder & Mystery, Series 4, Ruth Rendell: Trebuchet

With the world on the brink, a family shelter in Scotland.

With the world on the brink of catastrophe, a family are on a sheltered Scottish island. Read by Hattie Morahan.

While the world is on the brink of catastrophe, Mark, Miriam and their children are on a sheltered Scottish island.

An occasional series of stories from life’s murkier places, featuring Tales from the collection A Spot Of Folly by Ruth Rendell.

Ruth Rendell was one of the UK’s most prominent crime writers. Best known for her Inspector Wexford books, she also wrote psychological novels as Barbara Vine. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. She died in May 2015. A Spot Of Folly, a collection of previously unpublished stories, was published in 2017.

Read by Hattie Morahan.

Producer: Jeremy Osborne  

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk productions and first broadcast in January 2019.

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