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Honeymooners Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife's marital bliss is soon disturbed. Dorothy L Sayers's mystery with Ian Carmichael.

Honeymooners Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife soon find their marital bliss disturbed.

There's something nasty in the cellar...

Dorothy L Sayers's mystery novel, first published in 1937.

Ian Carmichael stars as the British gentleman detective.

Dramatised in six episodes by Alistair Beaton.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Lady Wimsey …. Sarah Badel
Bunter …. Peter Jones
Miss Twitterton …. Rosemary Leach
Mrs Ruddle …. Pearl Hackney
Mr Puffett …. Michael Ripper
The Rev Goodacre …. Gerald Sim
MacBride …. Roger Lloyd Pack
Frank Crutchley …. Kenneth Cranham
Narrator …. John Westbrook

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. He features in a number of detective novels and short stories.

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

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1983.

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