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Watching the Detectives with Jeremy Vine

As part of Friday Night is Music Night's presenter season, Jeremy Vine takes the presenter's role in a themed concert devoted to the great detectives.

Jeremy Vine, an investigative journalist more used to grilling cabinet ministers, presents a concert of crime and police themes.

The programme includes themes to amateur sleuths Poirot and Marple; legal court room dramas Garrow's Law and Rumpole Of The Bailey.

The repertoire also recalls Inspector Tom Barnaby (Midsomer Murders), Inspector Jack Regan (The Sweeney) and the bungling Inspector Jacques Clouseau (The Pink Panther).

From Holland Commissaris, there's Van Der Valk and, from America, Lieutenant Detective Theo Kojak, Detective Steve McGarrett (Hawaii 5-0), as well as the less than perfect Sergeant Frank Drebin from The Naked Gun film series.

But we don't forget the good old British bobby on the beat - PC George Dixon (Dixon Of Dock Green).

The 70-piece Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra is on hand, conducted by that devotee of light music Gavin Sutherland.

This concert first broadcast on Radio 2 in November 2011.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 Aug 2012 20:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Theme – Perry Mason

    (Steiner)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Theme - Morse

    (Pheloung)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Miss Marple

    (Howard/Blaikley)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Suite –The Avengers

    (Johnson)

  • Nerina Pallot

    Someone to Watch Over me

  • Nerina Pallot

    Will You Still Love Me

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Dick Barton

    (Williams)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Police Squad

    (Newborn)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    The French Connection

    (Ellis)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Danse Macabre

    (Saint Saens)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    The Sweeney

    (South)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Poirot

    (Gunning)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Murder On The Orient Express

    (Richard Rodney Bennett)

  • Nerina Pallot

    All Bets Are Off

  • Nerina Pallot

    Life On Mars

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Hawaii 5-0

    (Stevens)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Pink Panther

    (Mancini)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Eye Level – Van Der Valk

    (Trombey)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Foyle's War

    (Parker)

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Police Special

    (arr. Smith)

Broadcasts

  • Fri 4 Nov 2011 20:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
  • Fri 24 Aug 2012 20:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2