Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor BBC - Michael McStay Audiobook

Written by Michael McStay
Read by Full Cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor
Seven BBC Radio Crime Dramas
By: Micheal McStay
Narrated by: Stephen Thorne, Joe Dunlop, Toby Jones, Phyliss Logan, Diana Bishop, Frances Jeater, Nicholas Boulton, Gareth Armstrong, James Taylor, John Webb, Peter Gunn, Margaret Coleman, David Jarvis, Michael McStay, full cast
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 20-04-2023
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

The collected BBC Radio 4 crime dramas featuring Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor.

Like his actor namesake, Ronald Coleman is a suave, well-spoken English gentleman. But although he’s a movie buff, Coleman is no film star - he’s a copper, and a Detective Inspector to boot. Together with his down-to-earth Scottish partner, DS Fred Astor, he sets about solving cases on two very different patches - rural Kirkcaldy and inner-city Southampton.

Death Beach sees Hollywood director Curt Zorack’s film shoot interrupted by the death of one of the cast. But is it suicide or murder? In Death of a Mean Cornet, a jazz musician and old friend of Sergeant Astor is found dead of a heroin overdose. It looks like an accident, but Fred’s not convinced. In Death Against the Odds, two murders in one night cause Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor to lose some sleep - and long for the days when sheep-rustling was the worst crime they had to deal with.

Death of a Hooligan finds the two detectives working together at South Hants Central, and probing the suspicious death of a football fan; while in A Day at the Races, Sergeant Astor falls among thieves, and Inspector Coleman has one of his infamous hunches. In No Harm Done, the duo are faced with a wall of silence when a resident of the notorious Gantry Estate is found badly beaten. And in Fools Rush In, an IRA terrorist is released from Parkhurst prison - and promptly disappears. How is he connected to the mysterious Irishman causing parking problems on a suburban street?

These enthralling crime dramas star Stephen Thorne as Coleman and Joe Dunlop as Astor, with a supporting cast including Diana Bishop, Frances Jeater and Nicholas Boulton.