A BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of Simon Brett's comic murder mystery, starring Bill Nighy as the irrepressible Charles Paris.
Simon Brett was born in Worcester Park, Surrey, on 28 October 1945.
He was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford,
where he read English and was president of the Oxford University
Dramatic Society.
After graduating in 1967 he worked as Father Christmas in a
department store before landinga job at the BBC as a radio
producer. During his ten years there, he worked on such programmes
as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Week Ending, The Burkiss
Way, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and Just a Minute. He moved to
London Weekend Television in 1977, where he produced Maggie and
Her, End of Part One and The Glums (a popular spin-off from radio’s
Take It From Here).
Brett’s first Charles Paris novel, Cast In Order of Disappearance,
was published in 1975, and by 1979 he was able to leave LWT and
become a full-time writer. He has written over eighty books,
including nineteen Charles Paris books, fifteen Fethering Mysteries
and six Mrs Pargeter novels, as well as several non-series titles
such as A Shock to the System (1984), which was adapted as a film
starring Michael Caine. He has also contributed to several
anthologies and scripted many sitcoms for radio including No
Commitments, Smelling of Roses and After Henry.
Other radio work includes several one-off plays for Radio 4, and a
number of episodes of the detective series Baldi. A former Chair of
both the Crime Writers’ Association and The Society of Authors, he
is currently President of the Detection Club, as well as being
involved with various writers’ organisations. He is married with
three children, and lives in West Sussex.
Jeremy Front is an award winning writer, actor and broadcaster. He
studied Fine Art (Painting) at Goldsmith’s, University of London
and Central St. Martin’s School of Art.
His first feature length screenplay was shortlisted for the Oxford
Film Foundation Prize and first theatre pieces were musical/sketch
revues, co-written with his sister, Rebecca Front. Four Times Four,
a collection of monologues for women was staged by the RSC in
Stratford as part of their New Writing Season.
Jeremy has written extensively for radio and television moving
between original and adaptations in both drama and comedy. Work for
BBC Radio includes the comedy series: Jack and Millie, seven series
of Incredible Women (nominated BBC Audio Drama Award) in both of
which he co-stars with Rebecca Front, and the long-running radio
comedy series The Charles Paris Mysteries starring Bill Nighy.
Jeremy has adapted and dramatized work by Graham Greene Stamboul
Train, Elizabeth Gaskell Mr. Harrison’s Confession, John Meade
Faulkner The Lost Stradivarius, Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(Nominated and Finalist for a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Award), Chekov The Duel and Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, Scoop,
Brideshead Revisited and The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Winner of the
BBC Audio Drama Award).
Of previous adaptation Cast In Order of Disappearance: ''Bill
Nighy's lovely, laid-back style sets the tone and pace, and there
are great performances all round."
*The Independent*
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