Brother Cadfael - Series 1 to 3 - BBC Radio Drama - Ellis Peters Audiobook

Written by Ellis Peters
Read by Philip Madoc, Michael Hordern, Glyn Houston, Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

A onetime Crusader turned Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael is a most unusual detective. Living a quiet life as a monastery herbalist, he spends his days ministering to his brothers using the medical skills he acquired in the Holy Lands - but his worldly knowledge and wide experience of human nature are frequently called upon when there is a murder to solve….

MONK’S HOOD

December 1138. Brother Cadfael is asked to supply a healing potion for a sick monk - but monk’s hood oil can kill as well as cure…

Brother Cadfael - Philip Madoc
Narrator - Michael Hordern
Brother Mark - Ian Targett
Fr Heribert - Timothy Bateson
Prior Robert - Geoffrey Whitehead
Meurig - Kenneth Price
Richildis Bonel - Pat Heywood
Brother Rhys/Judge - Norman Jones
Aelfric - Mark Straker
Brother Edmund - Timothy Carlton
Brother Petrus - Fraser Kerr
Sergeant - Ian Hogg
Aldith - Jane Whittenshaw
Edwy Bellecote - Stephen Garlick
Edwin Gurney - Richard Pearce
Hugh Beringar - Alan Barker
Ifor ap Morgan - Michael Turner
Brother Barnabas - Terence Edmond

Dramatised by Bert Coules
Produced by Lissa Evans
First broadcast in 1991.

THE VIRGIN IN THE ICE

In the winter of 1139, Cadfael sets out through snowbound Shropshire to find a missing boy and his sister.

Brother Cadfael - Philip Madoc
Narrator - Michael Hordern
Hugh Beringar - Douglas Hodge
Olivier - Raad Rawi
Ermina - Moira Buffini
Ives - Dean Magri
Abbot Radulfus - John Church
Leonard - Leonard Fenton
Elyas - Crispin Letts
Boterel - Andrew Wincott
Button - Eric Allan
Porter - Steve Hodson
Le Gaucher - Peter Laird
Axeman/Sergeant - Peter Gunn
Outlaw - Jonathan Adams
Sergeant - Jonathan Tafler
With David Holt, Ann Windsor, Julian Rhind-Tutt, John Fleming and Kate Binchy

Dramatised by Bert Coules
Produced by Phil Clarke
Music by Peter Salem
First broadcast in 1992.

DEAD MAN’S RANSOM

1141. Beyond the walls of the abbey, civil war rages. When news arrives that Sheriff Gilbert Prestcote has been taken prisoner, a hostage exchange is arranged - but love and murder intervene…

Brother Cadfael - Philip Madoc
Narrator - Michael Kitchen
Sister Magdalen - Susannah York
Hugh Beringar - Jonathan Tafler
Elis - Jason Hughes
Radulfus - Trevor Peacock
Herbard/Edmund/Ithel - Shaun Prendergast
Aline - Lorien Haynes
Lad/Villager - David Holt
Melicent - Katy Odey
Prince Owain - Sion Probert
Cristina - Siobhan Flynn
Eliud - Mark Lewis Jones
Maurice/Rhys/Griffri - Douglas Blackwell
Anion - Matthew Morgan

Dramatised by Bert Coules
Produced by Neil Cargill
Music by Peter Salem
First broadcast in 1995.

Also as a bonus I have included the earlier unrelated production of:-

ONE CORPSE TOO MANY

1138. With England at civil war - among the bodies of those accused of treason, lies one that was not executed. Brother Cadfael has a murder on his hands.

Mystery starring Glyn Houston as Brother Cadfael.

Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Alan Downer.

Brother Cadfael - Glyn Houston
Godith Adeney - Jane Slavin
King Stephen - Richard Tate
Gilbert Prestcote - John Moffatt
Adam Courcelle - Geoffrey Whitehead
Aline Siward - Joan Walker
Hugh Berringer - Ken Cumberlidge
Edric Flesher - Brian Miller
Petronilla Flesher - Dilys Laye
Torold Blund - Paul Downing
Lame Osbern - Ian Targett
Brother Oswald - David Goudge

Producer - Gerry Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990.

This production is only one year older than the Bert Coules series, but sounds twenty years older in actual execution.

All my encodes sourced from BBC Sounds.