Test Room Eight

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Test Room Eight: 2. The Broken Ampoule

2. The Broken Ampoule

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Test Room Eight, 2. The Broken Ampoule

Odell and Heather now have a death to investigate at the troubled pharmaceutical plant.

Odell and Heather now have a death to investigate at the troubled pharmaceutical plant. Stars Robert Beatty and Sheila Manahan.

Philip Odell and his assistant Heather McMara now have a death to investigate at the troubled 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
Hugh Chalk .... David Spenser
Wyn Craxton .... Jeffrey Segal
Heather McMara .... Sheila Manahan
Ken Armstrong .... Duncan McIntyre
Herbert Truscott .... Hamilton Dyce
Barbara Eurich .... Stella Textor
Colonel Guestling .... Richard Williams
Jill Guestling .... Hilda Schroder
Policeman .... Will Leighton

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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