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1. No Sign Of Foul Play

WhodunnitsWimsey - Unnatural Death
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Not satisfied with Agatha Dawson's post-mortem, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates. Dorothy L Sayers mystery with Ian Carmichael.

Not satisfied with Agatha Dawson's post-mortem, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers.

Unnatural Death was first published in 1927.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Dramatised in seven episodes by Chris Miller.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Miss Climpson …. Ambrosine Phillpotts
Inspector Parker …. Gabriel Woolf
Doctor Carr …. Peter Baldwin
Nurse Philliter …. Corinna Marlowe
Waiter …. Christopher Emmett

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1975.

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