A BBC Radio comedy detective drama by Simon Brett, starring Bill Nighy as actor-cum-amateur sleuth, Charles Paris. Charles has uncharacteristically landed a part in a film called The Wreathing, in which he's playing a middle managemen...

Charles Paris, middle-aged actor turned amateur sleuth, is vacationing at a small English seaside town. Irresistibly drawn to anything theatrical, Charles seeks entertainment at the local music hall and endures a series of not-so-wond...

This is a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Simon Brett's comic crime novel, starring Bill Nighy as actor turned amateur sleuth Charles Paris. Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - esp...

Charles Paris is an unhappily separated, moderately successful actor with a slight drinking problem. As he becomes entangled in various crimes, he finds himself in the role of unwilling amateur detective. In The Dead Side of the Mic, ...

When Jude and Carole stumble across the body of ex-equestrian Walter Fleet, the police attribute the stabbing to the mysterious ''Horse Ripper.'' But considering Walter's track record out of the saddle, there are plenty of murder susp...

This BBC radio drama stars Bill Nighy and features a full cast. Charles Paris's acting career plummets to new depths when he takes the part of a murder victim in a true-crime TV series. But Charles is drawn into an investigation when ...

Two full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations starring David Threlfall as the crime-solving priest. On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected t...

Rehearsals in a new West End play are disrupted by sudden, violent death in the intriguing new Charles Paris mystery Having landed a small part in a new West End play, The Habit of Faith, Charles Paris is dismayed to discover that his...

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of a novel by Simon Brett, adapted by Jeremy Front. While appearing in a Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles finds a body beneath Eastbourne Pier,...

The wickedly entertaining new Fethering mystery featuring chalk-and-cheese detective duo Carole and JudePolly’s Cake Shop has been a feature of the shopping parade for many years, but when its owner announces her retirement, the Fet...

Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is...

At her husband’s funeral, Heather Mallet is publicly accused of murder. But did Heather really kill her husband, as many Fethering residents now believe?\r\n \n\nTo get to the heart of the matter, Carole’s neighbor Jude jo...

When the body of a prospective client is discovered in her burned-out home, declutterer Ellen Curtis is drawn into a baffling investigation where nothing is as it first appears. "My mother's going to kill herself . . . That is, i...