Kingsley Amis Riverside Villas Murder

(4 stars; 7 reviews)

Saturday-Night Theatre: The Riverside Villas Murder Sat 26th Jun 1976, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Kingsley Amis Dramatised by Frederick Bradnum A classic armchair mystery, a lovely little murder, set in the suburbs of Surrey, England in the 1930s.  'Don't grow up too fast. Peter. When I was your age I couldn't wait to get out into the world. because I thought it was going to be so marvellous. Well. it isn't. Things like this -they're happening all the time. And it isn't fair. It isn't fair at all.’ Bert Soper’s Rhythm Boys   Bill McGuffie (piano)   Tony Gilbert (violin) Henrv McKenzie (clarinet)   Bobby Orr (drums) Produced and directed by Harry Catlin   Colonel Manton:……Peter Jeffrey Peter Furneaux:…..Ian Sharrock Mr Langdon:……Malcolm Reid Daphne Hodgson:……Deborah Paige Mrs Trevelyan:……Norma Ronald Capt Furneaux:……Stephen Thorne Det-Con Barrett:…..Paul Meier Mrs Ellington:…..Anne Jameson Mr Trevelyan:…..Leslie Heritage Mr Hodgson:….Clifford Norgate Mr Inman:……Steve Hodson Insp Cox:…..Garard Green Sgt Duke:…..Douglas Blackwell Mrs Furneaux:…..Joanna Wake A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.