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John Creasey's Inspector West - BBC Radio Drama

by: BBC Radio 4

Publication date: 1967-06-07

Topics: Radio, Drama

Language: English

Three vintage crime serials, adapted from author John Creasey's hugely popular thriller series.

Roger West is a home-loving, hard-hitting and very human policeman. Nicknamed 'Handsome' West, he's more than just a pretty face - he's also Scotland Yard's youngest, smartest detective and a crime-solving supremo. Six of his adventures were dramatised for radio between 1967 and 1971, starring real-life husband and wife Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson as Roger and Janet West. Unfortunately only three of the six dramas survive, all of which are included here.

Battle for Inspector West

Idle curiosity takes the Chief Inspector to a high-society wedding—and leads him into a case involving a notorious blackmailer and a missing bride. Drawn into a web of terror, West comes face-to-face with an old adversary—a dangerous criminal mastermind named Carosian....

Chief Inspector Roger West - Patrick Allen

Janet West - Sarah Lawson

Michael Grant - Philip Bond

Christine Grant - Denise Buckley

Sir Guy Chatworth - Hamilton Dyce

Prendergast - John Cazabon

Vic - Charles Haggith

Carosian - Francis de Wolff

Arthur Morley - Preston Lockwood

Julieta - Eva Stuart

Sir Mortimer Grant - Humphrey Morton

Detective Sergeant Hubert Gill - Trevor Bannister

Pearly Willis - Henry Stamper

Superintendent Mulloon - Harry Webster

Written by John Creasey.

Adapted by Maurice Travers.

Produced by John Fawcett Wilson.

First broadcast BBC Light Programme, 4th May - 15th June 1967.

Inspector West at Home

When Roger West finds the dead body of a small-time crook, he faces opposition from the formidable Superintendent Abbott, his superior at the Yard. Suspended from duty, he sets out on a trail of conspiracy, corruption and murder....

Chief Inspector Roger West - Patrick Allen

Janet West - Sarah Lawson

Detective Inspector Bob Cornish - Frederick Treves

Mark Lessing - Edward de Souza

Superintendent Abbott - Grant Taylor

Pep Morgan - Harry Landis

Pickerell - Robert James

Sir Guy Chatworth - Maurice Hedley

Mrs Fleming - Margaret Robertson

Lois Randall - Carol Marsh

Bill Tennant - Anthony Jackson

'Whistler' Malone - Rio Fanning

Raymond Fleming - Frederick Jaeger

Written by John Creasey.

Adapted by Maurice Travers.

Produced by John Fawcett Wilson.

Pianist: Max Harris.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2, 25th March - 15th April 1968.

Inspector West at Bay

First West is targeted by a vicious attacker, then his wife, Janet, receives an anonymous, threatening message. Caught up in a deadly game of blind man's buff, can he save himself and his family from an enemy who seems determined to destroy them?

Chief Inspector Roger West - Patrick Allen

Janet West - Sarah Lawson

Sir Guy Chatworth - Maurice Hedley

Detective Inspector Bill Sloan - Derek Newark

Mark Lessing - James Kerry

Eve Wedlake - Anna Gilchrist

With Leonard Fenton, John Baddely, Elizabeth Proud, Judy Bennett, Margaret Wolfit, Peter Williams, John Pullen, Ian Frost and Peter Thompson.

Written by John Creasey.

Adapted by Maurice Travers.

Produced by John Browell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2, 27th May - 19th June 1969.