A Charles Paris Mystery by Simon Brett - BBC Radio Crime Dramas

Category: Adults, Crime, Full Cast, Humor
Language: EnglishKeywords: Crime Humour Radio Production Thriller
Written by Simon Brett, Jeremy Front, Bert Coules
Read by Bill Nighy, Suzanne Burden, Jon Glover, Full Cast
Format: Mixed
Bitrate: Mixed
Dramatization
The complete (to date July 2022) BBC Radio collection of Charles Paris Mysteries by Simon Brett.
Starring Bill Nighy as Charles Paris, an unhappily separated (but not divorced, more than 30 years on), moderately successful character actor with a slight drinking problem who gets entangled in various crimes, and finds himself unwillingly in the role of amateur detective.
Adapted by Bert Coules (So Much Blood) and Jeremy Front (all other stories) with Suzanne Burden as Frances and Jon Glover as Maurice.
These are mainly my recordings from BBC Sounds/iPlayer encoded as vbr chaptered m4b
To plug the gaps and complete the collection the mp3s mostly came from archive.org. I losslessly edited off continuity announcers and evened out volume without recoding.
I did recode the first episode as it had masses of hiss, ear-scraping treble & almost no bass. I EQ’d it and reduced the hiss. It doesn’t sound great, but it’s acceptable.
I have also included an earlier, unrelated production done in the 1980s for BBC Radio 2. It starred Frances Matthews as Charles Paris and was adapted for radio by the author. There were two series which were for some reason recorded in mono. Both are included here.
Starring Bill Nighy:-
1 - So Much Blood
2 - A Series of Murders
3 - Sicken and So Die
4 - Murder Unprompted
5 - Dead Side of the Mic
6 - Cast in Order of Disappearance
7 - Murder in the Title
8 - A Reconstructed Corpse
9 - An Amateur Corpse
10 - Corporate Bodies
11 - A Decent Interval
12 - The Cinderella Killer
13 - Dead Room Farce
14 - Star Trap
15 - A Doubtful Death
16 - A Deadly Habit
Starring Frances Matthews:-
1 - Cast in Order of Disappearance
2 - So Much Blood


The complete (to date July 2022) BBC Radio collection of Charles Paris Mysteries by Simon Brett.

Starring Bill Nighy as Charles Paris, an unhappily separated (but not divorced, more than 30 years on), moderately successful character actor with a slight drinking problem who gets entangled in various crimes, and finds himself unwillingly in the role of amateur detective.

Adapted by Bert Coules (So Much Blood) and Jeremy Front (all other stories) with Suzanne Burden as Frances and Jon Glover as Maurice.

These are mainly my recordings from BBC Sounds/iPlayer encoded as vbr chaptered m4b

To plug the gaps and complete the collection the mp3s mostly came from archive.org. I losslessly edited off continuity announcers and evened out volume without recoding.

I did recode the first episode as it had masses of hiss, ear-scraping treble & almost no bass. I EQ’d it and reduced the hiss. It doesn’t sound great, but it’s acceptable.

I have also included an earlier, unrelated production done in the 1980s for BBC Radio 2. It starred Frances Matthews as Charles Paris and was adapted for radio by the author. There were two series which were for some reason recorded in mono. Both are included here.

Starring Bill Nighy:-

1 - So Much Blood

2 - A Series of Murders

3 - Sicken and So Die

4 - Murder Unprompted

5 - Dead Side of the Mic

6 - Cast in Order of Disappearance

7 - Murder in the Title

8 - A Reconstructed Corpse

9 - An Amateur Corpse

10 - Corporate Bodies

11 - A Decent Interval

12 - The Cinderella Killer

13 - Dead Room Farce

14 - Star Trap

15 - A Doubtful Death

16 - A Deadly Habit

Starring Frances Matthews:-

1 - Cast in Order of Disappearance

2 - So Much Blood