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4. The Murky Mystery of Murder at St Mark's

The eloquent Elizabethan spy heads to Cambridge, where college professors are dropping like flies. Stars Dominic Jephcott.

Can a college murderer at large be outwitted?

The eloquent Elizabethan spy heads to Cambridge, where college professors are dropping like flies.

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.

Last of a series of historical comedy mysteries by Ged Parsons.

Christopher Marlowe ....... Dominic Jephcott
Bartholomew Ratsbane ....... Bill Wallis
Sir Francis Walsingham ....... Paul Brooke
Darus ....... Peter Serafinowicz
Sir Hubert ....... Gordon Reid
Mistress Parker ....... Sarah Thomas

Producer: Richard Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 28 Dec 202401:30

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