London Particulars

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Drama: Classic & Period

Drama: Crime

John Peacock - London Particulars

Series about two Peelers, Pip and Tom, who solve crimes in Victorian London

Series about two crime detecting Peelers, Pip and Tom, who solve crimes in Victorian London. Todd Carty stars as Pip

London Particulars: Series 1: 1.  Missing Michael

1.  Missing Michael

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - London Particulars, Series 1, 1.  Missing Michael

1839: Kathleen travels to London to be with her love, but he's disappeared.

4 Extra Debut. 1839: Kathleen heads to London to be with her sweetheart Michael, only to discover he's gone missing. Starring Todd Carty.

It’s 1839. Kathleen travels to London from Cork in Ireland to be with her sweetheart Michael, only to find that he's gone missing. 

He has a past, but has it caught up with him?

Starring Todd Carty and Elizabeth Spriggs.

John Peacock’s two-part Victorian drama is set at the time that the Bow Street Runners were disbanded, to be replaced by the Peelers. 

'London Particular’ is the name given to the heavy fogs that occurred in the capital in that period.

Pip Shepherd …. Todd Carty
Thomas Tedman .... Charles Simpson
Dolly Jenks .... Elizabeth Spriggs
Kathleen Kelleher .... Hilary Reynolds
Sarah Vermilloe .... Linda Polan
Robert Vermilloe .... Jonathan Adams
Toby .... Peter Kenny
Ethel .... Zulema Dene
Suzannah .... Becky Hindley
Hannah the Cook .... Tina Grey
Polly/Singer at The Hotel Dieppe .... Elizabeth Mansfield
Peter Ablas .... Matthew Morgan
Inspector Goddard .... Keith Drinkel
Sam Weeks .... John Hartley

With: 

Denys Hawthorne
David Timson 

Piano played by Neil Brand.

Director: David Blount

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.

London Particulars: Series 1

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Set in 1839, and the birth of the Peelers, Pip Shepherd hunts for a missing Irishman.

It's 1839. The Bow Street Runners are replaced by the Peelers. When a young Irish girl travels to London to find her sweetheart, Pip Shepherd offers to trace the missing man.

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