Private Eye Billy Rucker BBC - Adam Baron

Category: Detective, Full Cast, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: BBC British Noir Full Cast Radio 4

Written by Adam Baron
Read by Full Cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Private Eye Billy Rucker
Two BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramas: Hold Back the Night and Shut Eye
By: Adam Baron
Narrated by: David Morrissey, Danny Webb, Adjoa Andoh, Edward de Souza, Rachael Stirling, Frances Jeater, full cast
Series: Billy Rucker, Book 1-2
Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 18-05-2023
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

David Morrissey stars as Billy Rucker in these two gritty urban noir thrillers.

Ex-copper-turned-private-investigator Billy Rucker scours the seamy underbelly of London, hunting for runaways - and murderers. Tough, worldly wise and street-savvy, he can go where the police can’t: and once he’s on the trail, he won’t stop until he finds the truth…

Hold Back the Night - High summer, and the city is sweltering. Despite the heat, PI Billy Rucker is out pounding the streets, looking for a missing girl named Lucy Bonham. He suspects that Lucy and her friend Donna were mixed up in something nasty - but he has no idea of the full horrors he is about to uncover.

Shut Eye - When an airline pilot is found brutally murdered with a champagne bottle, his brother, Tory MP Sir Peter Morant, asks Billy Rucker to investigate. Although he’s already working one assignment - tracking down teenager Dominic Lewis - Rucker agrees to take the case. Delving into Teddy’s private life in search of a serial killer, he identifies a high-profile suspect. But when another body is discovered, Billy finds the finger of suspicion pointing at him…

Adapted from Adam Baron’s highly acclaimed crime novels, these dark, suspenseful detective dramas star David Morrissey, Danny Webb, Adjoa Andoh, Li Leng Au and Ioan Meredith.

Production credits

Written by Adam Baron

Dramatised by Doug Lucie

Produced and directed by Janet Whitaker

Starring David Morrissey as Billy Rucker, Danny Webb as DI Gold, Adjoa Andoh/Li Leng Au as Sharon and Ioan Meredith as Inspector Clay

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22 November-13 December 2005

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9-30 March 2004

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