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Kingsley Amis - The Riverside Villas Murder

4 Extra Debut. It's 1936: an adolescent boy’s coming of age is blighted by a local murder. Stars Ian Sharrock and Norma Ronald. From 1976.

"Don't grow up too fast, Peter. When I was your age I couldn't wait to get out into the world, because I thought it was going to be so marvellous. Well. it isn't. Things like this - they're happening all the time. And it isn't fair. It isn't fair at all."

Set in 1936, an adolescent boy’s coming of age is blighted by a local murder.

Kingsley Amis’s novel, first published in 1973.

Starring Ian Sharrock and Stephen Thorne.

Dramatised by Frederick Bradnum.

Peter Furneaux .... Ian Sharrock
Captain Furneaux .... Stephen Thorne
Colonel Manton .... Peter Jeffrey
Mrs Trevelyan .... Norma Ronald
Mr Langdon .... Malcolm Reid
Daphne Hodgson .... Deborah Paige
Detective Con Barrett .... Paul Meier
Mrs Ellington .... Anne Jameson
Mr Trevelyan .... Leslie Heritage
Mr Hodgson .... Clifford Norgate
Mr Inman .... Steve Hodson
Inspector Cox .... Garard Green
Sergeant Duke .... Douglas Blackwell
Mrs Furneaux .... Joanna Wake

Music performed by Bert Soper's Rhythm Boys.

Director: Harry Catlin

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in June 1976.


'The Riverside Villas Murder' is part of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection selected from titles returned to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ by various collectors.

Please note that this is a treated off-air recording.

Our warm thanks go to the Radio Circle.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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