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1. Murder?

Why does a Cambridge master need a plodding Health and Safety executive? Mark Tavener's comedy thriller with Geoffrey Palmer.

A Cambridge college has been drawn together by the death of one of its most prominent dons - celebrity TV historian, Peter Devanti.

Ex-student Simon Harrison - now working for the Health and Safety Executive - begins to wonder whether his death was as straightforward as it first appeared...?

Starring Geoffrey Palmer and Samuel West.

Mark Tavener's six-part comedy thiller set in a small Cambridge college.

Gilbert ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Simon ...... Samuel West
Zoe ...... Sharon Small
Patricia ...... Rebecca Front
Dean ...... Michael Maloney
Bernard ...... Jonathan Coy
The Master ...... Hugh Dickson
Peter ...... Nicholas Boulton
Caroline ...... Emily Wachter
Alice ...... Beth Chalmers

Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 8 Feb 202501:30

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