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Whose Body?

Lord Peter probes the mystery of a corpse in a Battersea bath. Dorothy L Sayer's whodunit with Gary Bond as the suave sleuth.

A body is found and a body is lost.

But whose body has appeared in a bath in Battersea and where is the body a famous financier Sir Reuben Levy who went to bed one night in his flat in Park Lane and simply disappeared?

Debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.

Starring Gary Bond.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War. He features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers.

Whose Body? was first published in 1923.

Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.

Lord Peter Wimsey …… Gary Bond
Bunter …… John Cater
Mr Parker …… Roger Rowland
Sir Julian Freke …… Michael Graham Cox
Duchess of Denver …… Veda Warwick
Mr Thipps …… Kim Durham
John P Milligan …… Terry Molloy
Mr Crimplesham …… Christopher Benjamin
Sir Reuben Levy …… Geoff Serle
Freddie Arbuthnot …… Tim Brierley
Gladys Horrocks …… Charlotte Martin
Mr Piggot …… Alex Jones

Directed at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Pebble Mill by Vanessa Whitburn.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in December 1987.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 24 Oct 2021 04:00

Broadcasts

  • Sat 21 Jun 2008 12:00
  • Sun 22 Jun 2008 01:00
  • Sun 26 Sep 2010 02:30
  • Sun 26 Sep 2010 13:00
  • Mon 27 Sep 2010 01:00
  • Sun 21 Oct 2012 13:30
  • Mon 22 Oct 2012 03:30
  • Sat 13 Jun 2015 06:00
  • Sat 13 Jun 2015 16:00
  • Sun 14 Jun 2015 04:00
  • Sat 11 Nov 2017 06:00
  • Sat 11 Nov 2017 16:00
  • Sun 12 Nov 2017 04:00
  • Sat 23 Oct 2021 06:00
  • Sat 23 Oct 2021 16:00
  • Sun 24 Oct 2021 04:00