A Charles Paris Mystery: Complete BBC Radio Crime Dramas - Simon Brett, Jeremy Front, Bert Coules Audiobook

Written by Simon Brett, Jeremy Front, Bert Coules
Read by Bill Nighy, Suzanne Burden, Jon Glover, Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

The complete (to date end of August 2025) BBC Radio collection of Charles Paris Mysteries by Simon Brett.

This update adds the new series broadcast in 2025, ‘Situation Tragedy’ and also upgrades the sound quality of Bert Coules’ version of ‘So Much Blood’ both of which are direct downloads from BBC Sounds @ 128kps 48kHz with no recoding to effect sound quality.

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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 - Version 1) 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, The exceptions being the five stories from ‘A Series of Murders’ to ‘Cast in Order of Disappearance’ which came from Audible (no recoding)

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 & adapted by Bert Coules

So Much Blood adapted by Bert Coules (Despite starring Bill Nighy, this is unrelated to the series that follows as in 2023 Jeremy Front adapted this story for his own series.

Starring Bill Nighy & adapted by Jeremy Front

1 - A Series of Murders

2 - Sicken and So Die

3 - Murder Unprompted

4 - Dead Side of the Mic

5 - Cast in Order of Disappearance

6 - Murder in the Title

7 - A Reconstructed Corpse

8 - An Amateur Corpse

9 - Corporate Bodies

10 - A Decent Interval

11 - The Cinderella Killer

12 - Dead Room Farce

13 - Star Trap

14 - A Doubtful Death

15 - A Deadly Habit

16 - So Much Blood

17 - Situation Tragedy

Starring Frances Matthews & adapted by Simon Brett

1 - Cast in Order of Disappearance

2 - So Much Blood