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Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone: 2. The Police Take Action

Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone

2. The Police Take Action

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone, 2. The Police Take Action

Police investigate a missing diamond. 19th Century detective mystery with John Sharp.

Distraught Rachel's precious diamond vanishes, so the police investigation begins. Stars John Sharp and Sally Baxter.

Rachel is presented with a precious moonstone when she turns 18, but by the end of her birthday, it has gone missing.  

Superintendent Seegrave suspects that an insider is responsible... 

Victorian novel written by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1868.

Dramatised by Brian Gear. 

Gabriel Betteredge ...... John Sharp
Godfrey Ablewhite ...... Geoffrey Beevers
Franklin Blake ...... John Telfer
Rachel Verinder ...... Sally Baxter
Penelope Betteredge ...... Josie Kidd
Lady Verinder ...... Petra Davies
Superintendent Seegrave ...... Rex Holdsworth
Nancy ...... Jo Scott Matthews
Rosanna Spearman ...... Tammy Ustinov
Duffy ...... Debby Cumming
Yolland ...... Tom Eastwood
Sergeant Cuff ...... John Franklyn-Robbins
Samuel ...... Matthew Adams

Music composed and conducted by Sidney Sager.

Directed at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1979.

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19th century detective mystery concerning the disappearance of a seemingly cursed diamond

19th century detective mystery concerning the disappearance of a seemingly cursed diamond, inherited by Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. With John Sharp

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