1. Violent Robbery

1992: Two violent robberies force Detective Inspector Resnick to relive memories of ten years before.

Tom Wilkinson stars as jazz-loving DI Charlie Resnick.

John Harvey's two-part dramatisation of his own 1993 crime novel.

Wasted Years is one of a series of police thrillers set in the industrial wasteland of Nottingham in the 1980s and 1990s.

DI Resnick .... Tom Wilkinson
Millington .... Sean Baker
Elaine .... Jennie Stoller
Ruth ....Gillian Bevan
Kevin .....Daniel Ryan
Lynn..... Kate Eaton
Rains..... Stephen Critchlow
Rylands.... John Turner
Lorna ....Melanie Hudson
Keith ....Tom Bevan
Darren .... Gavin Abbott
Prior... John Hartley
Pam .... Sandra James-Young
Mary .... Becky Hindley
Marjorie .... Zulema Dene
Barrister.... Andrew Branch
Christine .... Jilly Bond

Director: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995.