Inspector Morse - House of Ghosts. An original drama, written by Alma Cullen around the characters of Morse and Lewis created by Colin Dexter. First broadcast on Saturday 25th March 2017 at 14:30 on BBC Radio 4. The focus is on the time in Morse's career when his mind was developing its incisive edge and his personal life was at its most complex. The year is 1987, and Morse is at the theatre, where the young actress playing Ophelia dies on stage during a performance of Hamlet. A Suspicious Death inquiry begins. When a suspect is murdered, Morse becomes convinced that the two deaths somehow connect with what happened at an Oxford student production of Hamlet which he was a part of in 1962. Inspector Morse ... Neil Pearson DS Lewis ... Lee Ingleby Supt Strange … Pip Torrens Philip Woolf … Stephen Critchlow Lawrence Baxter … Timothy Watson Paul Kincaid … Allan Corduner Ellen Underwood … Samantha Bond Verity Carr … Isla Blair Harriet Baxter … Janine Harouni
I rather think Samantha Bond has appeared in some TV versions of Inspector Morse and / or Lewis. I like Lee Ingleby and Neil Pearson and it's so nice to hear another story about Morse.❤
We have the original, Lewis, and Endeavour - all absolutely tip top. I gave this a couple of mins, probably because it had a picture of my old college. But it's tricky not to consider it a pastiche... glad others enjoyed it.
Obviously John Thaw WAS Morse. And Kevin Whateley the perfect Lewis. I so wish John Thaw had lived longer. 🥲 But alas we can have no more of their partnership. So in their absence, I'll gladly accept these two competent radio actors in their stead, if it means that we can hear more of Morse!
The vintage jag ? CHECK. Wine snobbery ? CHECK. Opera Music CHECK. Classical Latin quotations ? CHECK General air of intellectual pretentiousness ? CHECK. Yes. Morse is back.
Sorry Mavis...but it's 23 - 0 at the moment. Obviously not everyone shares your refined literary tastes.? In fact ...judging from number of " likes " it appears nobody does !!
M. Watts-Riley If you've seen the television series in the past, you might gain some enjoyment from just listening to them, anyway. I much prefer radio to television and quite often simply listen to tv programmes (especially documentaries) online.. It's surprising how often one can easily dispense with the visual component).
Perhaps. But it was written by Alma Cullen, who is credited as a co-writer of some of the television episodes, alongside Morse's brilliant creator, Colin Dexter.
Typical British mystery. Clues provided in the final five minutes solve the case. There was no way with my diminished intellect that I could have solved the mystery.
There are different types of detective novels .. this one was about character and situation more than whodunnit. Quite a lot of American novels are like this. I like those of Emma Lathen. Remember too that British people ,and in fact people fom all over the world are on the internet .it is not confined to people in the US
Even in a plotline teeming with smug, self-satisfied, pompous assholes Morse comes out on top (or bottom if you will) as the smuggest, most self-satisfied, widest gaping pompous asshole of the bunch. Every detective since the prototypical Holmes has got to have a schtick and I guess Morse's is being extremely unsympathetic. To me, he is so much so that I can't stand merely listening to the character's voice, much less suspend disbelief to the point of accepting someone with his flaws would last on any police force beyond a brief probationary period. In this waste-of-90-minutes play we learn he's not even that good of a detective as we accidently learn from one of the secondary characters (after countless "twists") that there was no murder after all.
well I am looking forward to trying out this version. and there are so many great detective stories out there. Dramas and audiobooks. We are spoiled. I just found the Chesterton Radio channel which has NO ADVERTS.
