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Philip Odell and his assistant investigate suspected sabotage at a pharmaceutical plant.

4 Extra Debut. Philip Odell and his assistant Heather investigate suspected sabotage at a pharmaceutical plant. Stars Robert Beatty. From 1958.

Philip Odell and his assistant Heather McMara investigate suspected sabotage at a 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
Herbert Truscott .... Hamilton Dyce
Hugh Chalk .... David Spenser
David Karswood .... Frederick Treves
Ken Armstrong .... Duncan McIntyre
Barbara Eurich .... Stella Textor
Wynn Craxton .... Jeffrey Segal
Martin Dersen .... Rolf Lefebvre
Colonel Guestling .... Richard Williams

Producer: David H Godfrey 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1958

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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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