Test Room Eight

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Test Room Eight: 3. The Man in the Grey Hat

3. The Man in the Grey Hat

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Test Room Eight, 3. The Man in the Grey Hat

A second suspicious death hits the beleaguered pharmaceutical plant.

Philip Odell probes another suspicious death at the beleaguered pharmaceutical plant. Stars Robert Beatty and Sheila Manahan.

Philip Odell investigates a second suspicious death at the beleaguered pharmaceutical plant. 

Starring Robert Beatty.

Lester Powell’s cool Irish investigator Philip Odell features in ten BBC radio dramas broadcast between 1947 and 1961.

His feisty, long-suffering assistant, Heather McMara is always on hand with her "female intuition".

Philip Odell .... Robert Beatty
Heather McMara .... Sheila Manahan
Coroner .... John Cazabon
Superintendent Manley .... Edward Jewesbury
Wynn Craxton .... Jeffrey Segal
Martin Dersen .... Rolf Lefebvre
Mr Twist .... Frank Windsor
Hugh Chalk .... David Spenser
Barbara Eurich .... Stella Textor
Herbert Truscott .... Hamilton Dyce

Producer: David H Godfrey 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1959.

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Philip Odell investigates suspected sabotage at a pharmaceutical plant.

Irish investigator Philip Odell and his assistant Heather McMara probe suspected sabotage at a pharmaceutical plant.

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