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Burn Gorman plays a detective investigating a brutal murder in 1980s London.

He has little to go on except for the cassette diaries left by the victim, played by Toby Jones.

Fragments of his life, recorded at different times, punch through into the present, and supply the detective with elusive clues to the true nature of the man's fate.

Derek Raymond's cult-crime novel first published in 1976.

Dramatised in three parts by Nick Perry.

The Detective . . . . . Burn Gorman
Staniland . . . . . Toby Jones
Barbara . . . . . Tanya Franks
Bowman . . . . . Ben Crowe
Grampian . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw
Betty . . . . . Christine Absalom
Landlord . . . . . Sean Murray
Pathologist . . . . . Ed Thorpe
Scar . . . . . Will Howard

Sound design by Caleb Knightley

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.