5. A State of Tension

Barbara is arrested and charged.

But then another body is discovered...

Starring Robert Beatty.

Lester Powell’s cool Irish investigator Philip Odell features in ten BBC radio dramas broadcast between 1947 and 1961.

His feisty, long-suffering assistant, Heather McMara is always on hand with her "female intuition"

Philip Odell .... Robert Beatty
Heather McMara .... Sheila Manahan
Herbert Truscott .... Hamilton Dyce
Wynn Craxton .... Jeffrey Segal
Barbara Eurich .... Stella Textor
Superintendent Manley .... Edward Jewesbury
Colonel Guestling .... Richard Williams
Jill Guestling .... Hilda Schroder
Hugh Chalk .... David Spenser

Producer: David H Godfrey

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1959.