3. This Blessed Plot

Jim Thackeray is a renowned landscape gardener. He is also a first-class private detective.

Thackeray's opportunity to redesign an Italian garden is thwarted by the disappearance of his employer.

Michael Cochrane stars as the green-fingered private sleuth in a series of murder mysteries.

Written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg

Thackeray .... Michael Cochrane
George .... John Hartley
Miss Birch .... Margaret John
Shirley .... Doreen Mantle
Bryony .... Melanie Walters
Dave .... Richard Lomas
Lombardi .... Carl Forgione
Claudia ....Vanessa Roper-Evans
Horace .... Robert Rietti
Hemming .... James Greene
Francesco .... Frank Rozelaar-Green

Producer: Alison Hindell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1997.