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1. The Curious Case of the Curs'd Quayside

The Elizabethan playwright gets a job, hires a servant - and inherits a mystery. Ged Parsons' adventure stars Dominic Jephcott.

Why do so many English warships sink for no apparent reason?

And exactly what does a certain jar contain?

Christopher Marlowe gets a job, hires a servant - and inherits a mystery.

Amid the splendour and squalor of Elizabethan London - scholar, playwright and government spy, Christopher Marlowe is assigned to investigate a number of baffling mysteries and perplexing intrigues...

Starring Dominic Jephcott and Bill Wallis.

Series of four historical comedy mysteries written by Ged Parsons.

Christopher Marlowe ....... Dominic Jephcott
Bartholomew Ratsbane ....... Bill Wallis
Sir Francis Walsingham ....... Paul Brooke
Admiral Downing ....... Garard Green
Captain Curtis ....... Brian Bowles
Captain Barnaby ....... Julian Dutton
Ladies ....... Sarah Thomas/Victoria Carling

Producer: Richard Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1993

30 minutes

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