A Capital Case: Karl Marx Meets Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes has never been able to resist a challenge so when Karl Marx turns up asking him to find his 'kidnapped' revolutionary tract Das Kapital, he agrees.

But, as Holmes discovers, Marx has enemies at home and abroad.

The great detective gets caught up in the crossfire between communists, anarchists and the British Establishment.

Duo-drama written by David Zane Mairowitz.

Sherlock Holmes ...... Robert Bathurst
Karl Marx/Mikhail Bakunin ...... David de Keyser
Eleanor Marx ...... Jasmine Hyde
Dr Watson ...... Thomas Arnold
Sir Charles Warren/Sergei Nachaev ...... John Rowe

Violinist: Sonya Slaney

Director: Peter Kavanagh

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2001.