Ep.167 PD James: The Private Patient Pt.1: An Adam Dagliesh Mystery

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Respected as one of the greats of modern crime writing, Phyllis Dorothy James (1920-2014), known as P. D. James, came to fame for her mystery series starring New Scotland Yard Commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh. She was also the author of a number of stand-along novels including The Children of Men, which was the basis for the movie Children of Men, and Death Comes to Pemberly, which was adapted into a BBC mini-series. Many of her Adam Dalgliesh books were also adapted for television. In 1991...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.
0:21.8	I'm your host, Stevie K.
0:23.7	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:27.2	For this episode, I bring you, part one of PD James's The Private Patient,
0:32.6	where Commander Adam Dalish and his team investigates a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients,
0:39.7	being treated by a famous plastic surgeon. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic
0:48.3	mystery radio. Thank you for listening. This is Radio 4, where now it's time for the Omnibus edition of our daily drama serial,
0:58.2	the latest Commander Dalglish mystery by P.D. James.
1:01.6	The private patient is set largely in and around an exclusive plastic surgery clinic in Dorset,
1:07.4	not far from an ancient stone circle, which has a grisly history of its own.
1:20.7	Burn the witch! By her! Mary can't you poison my baby!
1:26.7	No, no, I never, I never did!
1:28.7	Why you go to my misery you see, never, where is she?
1:30.7	I don't know!
1:31.9	Where?
1:32.9	I'm not, I'm not.
1:34.6	Monsters, all of you!
1:36.0	I curse you! I curse you all!
1:38.1	Ah!
1:39.1	Ah!
1:43.2	On November the 21st, the day of her 47th birthday, and three weeks and two days before she was murdered,
1:50.7	Rhoda Gradwin went to Harley Street to keep a first appointment with her plastic surgeon, George Chandler-Pole.
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