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2. Salty West

The smooth detective heads to Switzerland on the trail of the head of MI5's missing daughter. Stars Peter Coke. From 1956.

The daughter of the head of CI5, Sylvia Ross has disappeared, but the suave detective and his wife Steve are hot on the trail...

Starring Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury as Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.

Another baffling case of dastardly crimes must be solved.

Written by Francis Durbridge.

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Charlie …. James Beattie
Sir Graham Forbes …. Lester Mudditt
Mary Gardner …. Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Max Burford …. Allan McClelland
Brian Dexter …. Simon Lack
Mille …. Geoffrey Hodson
Workman/Elderly Waiter …. Jeffrey Segal

Between 1938 and 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave amateur detective and his journalist wife solved case after baffling case. They inhabited a sophisticated, well-heeled world of cocktails and fast cars in one of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio's most popular series.

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Light Programme in April 1956.

30 minutes

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