Letters of Introduction by Peter Whalley RADIO PLAY DRAMA BBC 

Hadn't heard this one ,either!!.

Thank you - I hate ads and I edited the audio myself to make it sound as it does - Also edited out a lot of "jazz inerludes" between episodes

@@denbighlad70- excellent job, thank you.

@@denbighlad70 Fantastic !

Thank you very much for doing that! Some certain channel even interrupts all the RU-vid adverts with her own homemade ones begging for money for uploading BBC content!and they come in quite randomly,in the middle of words, and often at critical moments! Most off-putting.So nice when a channel is run by someone who actually appreciates the radio plays too. Won yourself a subscriber for the principle 😊

@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6tsme too! 👏

Totally agree

Please listen til the end, will be worth it!

Half way through and I have lost patience with her

Two minutes in.. the wife! felt the same..

Oh I am so glad that someone else felt the same. I wanted to hit her, she was the lynch pin of all his troubles. But of course it is fiction and added to the tension, though there was still a good plot without her melodrama. Whalley’s dramas always have some character like her, I think he must have known someone personally to model them on.

She behaved as if he wasn't there. Just ignoring him.

I think if you had listened to the rest of the production, you might have changed your mind.

Would have made for a very dull story though.

*By end of episode 1, there'd been a number of clues, or red herrings!* - blackmail, it's usually someone you know - the daughter's *boyfriend* is writing a story about law, he's a lawyer, I think. He may be the red herring, or maybe not! - *the wife* could be testing him! He may have had other dalliance that she's seen signs of, but she hasn't been able to pin him down! You're very clever, she has implied he's cunning: that he'd be two steps ahead of any investigation she might do into a real-life love affair. When he set up the company, going out on his own, he'd told her there'd be lots of travel involved! In Episode One, or possibly beginning of next one, she has said she had been expecting him to be unfaithful, and had in her own way accepted it as part of marriage. We don't yet know what her career is, I skipped a bit, maybe it was said already, or that becomes part of a future plot point. - protagonist has history of someone who kept themselves hidden or secret giving him a hard time; happened when he was young, playing sports, and someone he had bested on the field was getting their own back by causing problems: a revenge motive: with ENVY suggested. One suspect, unlikely possibly, but unlikely things happen in mystery fiction (as in life!) is the next-door *neighbour* who is clearly henpecked, and possibly he's envious of the happy marriage. The fact that neighbour suggests *his detective* embroil neighbour further in plot! Nice array of suspects and red herrings. . By beginning of Episode 3, am wondering if it's the man himself! Seems improbable. He says he's fighting for his marriage. But wife suggests he's cunning. We are not seeing any psychological complexities in dialogue, no gaslighting for example, so relying on details given in plot.

Thought it was amazing how she shows suspicion but in a very unaccented manner, very low key, just posing questions. If she'd been more emotional, it might have got in way of story, imo. Her name is Sandra Clark, they said at end. Not much about her online. Think she's been in *Eastenders*

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Plenty of selfish narcassistic people about who think EXACTLY like that. Anyway, it's light entertainment not a documentary. I suppose Miss Marple just happened to be there when ALL them murders too place, just saying!

It was a STORY for goodness sake. Thoroughly enjoyed the drama .

Whalley's usually very good but this was way below his usual standard.

For Pete’s sake it’s fiction. Who cares if it’s realistic or not. It was a well crafted story

It's called FICTION.