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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.284 PD James: Devices And Desires Pt2

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 32 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 Nostalgic Mystery Radio.

0:22.0

I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

0:27.5

For this episode, I bring you P.D. James's Devices and Desires.

0:33.5

When Adam Dalglish visits Lark-Sokin, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station,

0:42.3

he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate.

0:47.3

But the peace of Larksookin is illusory.

0:50.3

Someone is terrorizing the neighborhood, and Dalglish finds himself drawn into the lives of the isolated headlanders in an attempt to uncover what sinister forces are at work.

1:02.5

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

1:08.9

Thank you for listening.

1:18.2

Where have you been, Miles?

1:20.3

We waited for you for nearly an hour.

1:25.4

I've been considering how best to answer that question for the last 20 minutes.

1:27.4

There are a number of possibilities.

1:31.1

I could say that I've been helping the police with their inquiries,

1:33.8

or that there was a little unpleasantness on the road,

1:36.6

or that I've been involved in a murder.

1:38.7

What on earth do you mean?

1:41.8

Actually, Alice, it was all three.

1:44.4

The whistler has killed again.

1:46.2

I found the body.

1:53.0

Devices and Desires by P.D. James,

1:56.7

dramatized in six episodes by Neville Teller,

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