Aberystwyth Noir BBC - Malcolm Pryce

Category: Full Cast, Humor, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: BBC Full Cast Radio 4

Written by Malcolm Pryce
Read by Richard Nichols, Matthew Gravelle, Manon Edwards, Lynne Seymour, Lee Mengo, Keiron Self, Phylip Harries, Catrin Stewart, Craig Roberts, full cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Aberystwyth Noir: Private Detective Louie Knight
A BBC Radio 4 Crime Thriller Series
By: Malcolm Pryce
Narrated by: Richard Nichols, Matthew Gravelle, Manon Edwards, Lynne Seymour, Lee Mengo, Keiron Self, Phylip Harries, Catrin Stewart, Craig Roberts, full cast
Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 23-02-2023
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

The spoof hardboiled thrillers with Wales’s top private investigator dramatised by BBC Radio.

This marvelous collection of Malcolm Pryce’s acclaimed Aberystwyth Noir radio productions are set in an alternative version of Aberystwyth, where the streets are filled with veterans of the Patagonian War (Wales’s answer to Vietnam), the Druids are mob bosses, and the ice cream is…unusual, to say the least.

The first play, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, sees Louie Knight, the town’s top private investigator - maybe its only private investigator - in search of the schoolboys who have been vanishing with increasing frequency. To do it, he’ll need all his wits about him - and the guts to stake out a Punch and Judy show, no matter the consequences…

In Last Tango in Aberystwyth, Louise Knight and sidekick Calamity Jane are drawn into the seedy world of the town’s ‘What the Butler Saw’ film industry, complete with dead ventriloquists and Druid assassins. But when Louie receives a call from his long lost love and gets news of an old enemy, what will he risk in the name of revenge?

In the final play, Aberystwyth Noir - It Ain’t Over Till the Bearded Lady Sings, Louie and Jane look into the death of Mr Big Top, another gunned-down victim of the Druids. It feels like trouble from the start, but that doesn’t mean Louie will stop; in fact, he’s half-way to the End of the Pier show before anyone knows he’s even on the case. Between the balloon twister, the bearded lady, and the Amazing Mr Marmalade, will Louie discover what’s really going on? Or will his nemesis, former games teacher turned lion tamer Herod Jenkins, mean Louie’s end, once and for all?

Featuring Richard Nicholls (News from Nowhere, Burning Both Ends), Sara Lloyd-Gregory (Tourist Trap, Doctors), and Matthew Gravelle (Broadchurch, Silent Witness), these surreal and hilarious noir thrillers will have you questioning everything you know about the beloved Welsh coastal town - and what you’d do to uncover the truth in a topsy-turvy world…

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