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Prize Fighting

4 Extra Debut. Revealing the world’s most prestigious literary prize faces an explosive outcome. Roy Marsden stars as Detective Inspector Pearce.

The judges of a prestigious international book prize meet on the day the winner is to be announced.

Tensions rise as they bicker over picking the winner. Then there’s a knock on the door.

Detective Inspector Pearce announces that terrorists have planted a bomb under the Bank of England.

Unless their own, populist, choice of book is announced as winner, they will detonate it.

What are they going to do..?

Fantasy crime thriller written by Caroline and David Stafford

Sara Teck .... Helen Atkinson Wood
Helen Kinross .... Isla Blair
Clive Renshaw .... John Duttine
Inspector Gordon Pearce .... Roy Marsden
Sir Archie Northcote .... Geoffrey Palmer
Aki Demetriades .... Nadim Sawalha

Director Marc Jobst

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in October 1998.

45 minutes

Last on

Sat 10 Aug 2024 01:00

Broadcasts

  • Fri 9 Aug 2024 06:00
  • Fri 9 Aug 2024 11:00
  • Fri 9 Aug 2024 17:00
  • Sat 10 Aug 2024 01:00