What were the great mystery radio shows?

[james_davis_nicoll]

There must have lots. Mystery is much more popular than SF....

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[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Vast amounts of BBC stuff of course, from Sayers to Doyle and beyond.

[narmitaj.livejournal.com]

Here's a good place to start - Radio 4 Extra; see this week's schedule: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra/programmes/schedules/this_week .

There are "broadcast" times, but some if not all programmes have a "listen again" within 7 days feature. Currently on this week are:

Adam Dalgliesh (The Private Patient)
Miss Marple (They Do It With Mirrors)
The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (The Mystery of the Obese Escapologist)
White Face by Edgar Wallace

There are often re-runs of ancient radio mystery dramas such as Paul Temple from the 40s and 50s, and things like the early 21C dramatisations of the first five Falco books about a Roman "detective" - a "private informer" in the Empire under Vespasian - starring Anton Lesser.

Plus currently on the sf front there's Doctor Who ("Cradle Of The Snake" with Peter Davison's doctor), some readings of Ray Bradbury stories (eg "All Summer In A Day" and "The Fog Horn"), a dramatisation of John Wyndham's Midwich Cuckoos, and Paradise Lost In Cyberspace.

[mcbadger.livejournal.com]

Charles Paris adaptations with Bill Nighy turn up quite regularly, too. I'm only familiar with these versions, not the original books, so I don't know how they compare, but I've found them very entertaining.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like both of those.