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Charles Paris: Corporate Bodies
Charles Paris Dramatisations (Related to this series)
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 18 September 2014
- Run Time
- 1 hour 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of Simon Brett's comic murder mystery, starring Bill Nighy as the irrepressible Charles Paris.
Charles Paris (unsuccessful actor, bad husband, dipsomaniac) is currently appearing as a fork lift operator in a corporate video. It's not prime-time television or a major film, but it seems like easy money - until the fork lift is used to commit a murder. When Charles himself comes under suspicion, he decides to find out for himself who the murderer is.
Meanwhile, as ever with Charles, life on the domestic front is not plain sailing. After inflicting damage upon his ex-wife's house, he finds himself offering her a berth on the houseboat he’s currently sitting for a friend. However, life on the water proves as tricky as life at work…
Suzanne Burden, Tim McInnery and Jon Glover are also among the cast in this dramatisation by Jeremy Front.
Written by Jeremy Front, based on the novel by Simon Brett.
Critics Review
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Of previous adaptation Cast In Order of Disappearance: ''Bill Nighy's lovely, laid-back style sets the tone and pace, and there are great performances all round."
The Independent
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Details
- Author
- Simon Brett and Jeremy Front
- Narrator
- Bill Nighy, Full Cast, Suzanne Burden
- Duration
- 1 hour 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 September 2014
- ISBN
- 9781910281345
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction, Comic (humorous) crime and mystery, Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Radio plays, scripts and performances
Synopsis
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of Simon Brett's comic murder mystery, starring Bill Nighy as the irrepressible Charles Paris. Charles Paris (unsuccessful actor, bad husband, dipsomaniac) is currently appearing as a fork lift operator in a corporate video. It's not prime-time television or a major film, but it seems like easy money - until the fork lift is used to commit a murder. When Charles himself comes under suspicion, he decides to find out for himself who the murderer is. Meanwhile, as ever with Charles, life on the domestic front is not plain sailing. After inflicting damage upon his ex-wife's house, he finds himself offering her a berth on the houseboat he’s currently sitting for a friend. However, life on the water proves as tricky as life at work… Suzanne Burden, Tim McInnery and Jon Glover are also among the cast in this dramatisation by Jeremy Front.Written by Jeremy Front, based on the novel by Simon Brett.
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