Jeremy Front

Simon Brett

Bill Nighy

Jon Glover

Suzanne Burden

Jonathan Forbes

Stephen Hogan

Letty Butler

Gillian Bevan

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A BBC Radio 4 Comedy

Jack & Millie: The Complete Series 1-3

A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation

Charles Paris: Situation Tragedy

The BBC Radio 4 Comedy

Jack & Millie: Series 3

A Series of Murders, Sicken and So Die, Murder Unprompted, The Dead Side of the Mic & Cast in Order of Disappearance

Charles Paris: A BBC Radio Collection

Murder in the Title, A Reconstructed Corpse, An Amateur Corpse, Corporate Bodies & A Decent Interval

Charles Paris: A Second BBC Radio Collection

The Cinderella Killer, Dead Room Farce, Star Trap, A Doubtful Death & A Deadly Habit

Charles Paris: A Third BBC Radio Collection

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

Charles Paris: So Much Blood

Down with Skool!, How to be Topp & more

Molesworth: A BBC Radio Collection

30 Festive Dramas and Stories

A BBC Christmas Collection

Charles Paris: Sicken and So Die

Seven BBC full-cast romantic comedies

Hopes and Desires

Charles Paris: A Deadly Habit

Jack & Millie: Series 2

The BBC Radio 4 murder mystery panel game

Foul Play: The Complete Series 1-4

The BBC Radio 4 comedy drama

No Commitments: Series 1-5

No Commitments: Series 6-9

No Commitments: Series 10-13

A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama

Smelling of Roses: The Complete Series 1-4

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy drama

Semi Circles: The Complete Series 1 and 2

Decline and Fall, Brideshead Revisited and other full-cast dramatisations

The Evelyn Waugh BBC Radio Drama Collection

Red Scorpion

Nine Full-Cast Vintage BBC Radio Crime Dramas

The Adventures of PC 49

And Other Stories

A Maigret Christmas

The Murder Trial

Charles Paris: A Doubtful Death

Charles Paris: Star Trap

Charles Paris: Dead Room Farce

Charles Paris: A Decent Interval

Charles Paris: Murder Unprompted

Charles Paris: Corporate Bodies

Charles Paris: An Amateur Corpse

Charles Paris: A Reconstructed Corpse

Charles Paris: Murder in the Title

Charles Paris: Cast in Order of Disappearance

Charles Paris: The Dead Side of the Mic

Charles Paris: A Series of Murders

Charles Paris: Dead Giveaway

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Bill Nighy returns as the actor and amateur sleuth, Charles Paris 
 
Charles’ agent Maurice is moving into ‘content’ and his first TV pilot is a reality game show set in a Manor House Spa Hotel on the privately owned island or St. Mungo. 
 
When the actor playing ‘The Butler’ drops out, Maurice offers the part to Charles. As he’s helping Maurice out of a tight spot Charles asks that Frances come along as a birthday treat. On arrival, Storm Trevor sweeps in cutting them off from the mainland and when the host of the show dies under suspicious circumstances. With time on his hands, Charles adopts his alternative role of amateur detective. 
 
Written by Jeremy Front and starring Bill Nighy 
Based on the novel by Simon Brett 
Directed by Sally Avens 
 
Cast: 
 
BILL NIGHY - Charles Paris 
 
SUZANNE BURDEN - Frances 
 
JON GLOVER - Maurice Skellern 
 
JONATHAN FORBES - Sean McKay 
 
LETTY BUTLER - Xanthe Klein 
 
STEPHEN HOGAN - Mike Cheadle 
 
GILLIAN BEVAN - Sheila Cheadle 
 
GRACE HOGG-ROBINSON - Tatti 
 
TAYLA KOVACEVIC-EBONG - Ross 
 
LAUREN CORNELIUS - Sapphi 
 
DAVID HOLT - Tristram

Jeremy Front (Author) 
Jeremy Front is an award winning writer, actor and broadcaster. He studied Fine Art (Painting) at Goldsmith’s, University of London and Central St. Martin’s School of Art. 
 
His first feature length screenplay was shortlisted for the Oxford Film Foundation Prize and first theatre pieces were musical/sketch revues, co-written with his sister, Rebecca Front. Four Times Four, a collection of monologues for women was staged by the RSC in Stratford as part of their New Writing Season. 
 
Jeremy has written extensively for radio and television moving between original and adaptations in both drama and comedy. Work for BBC Radio includes the comedy series: Jack and Millie, seven series of Incredible Women (nominated BBC Audio Drama Award) in both of which he co-stars with Rebecca Front, and the long-running radio comedy series The Charles Paris Mysteries starring Bill Nighy. Jeremy has adapted and dramatized work by Graham Greene Stamboul Train, Elizabeth Gaskell Mr. Harrison’s Confession, John Meade Faulkner The Lost Stradivarius, Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Nominated and Finalist for a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award), Chekov The Duel and Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, Scoop, Brideshead Revisited and The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award). 
 
Simon Brett (Author) 
Simon Brett was born in Worcester Park, Surrey, on 28 October 1945. He was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English and was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. 
 
After graduating in 1967 he worked as Father Christmas in a department store before landinga job at the BBC as a radio producer. During his ten years there, he worked on such programmes as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Week Ending, The Burkiss Way, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and Just a Minute. He moved to London Weekend Television in 1977, where he produced Maggie and Her, End of Part One and The Glums (a popular spin-off from radio’s Take It From Here). 
 
Brett’s first Charles Paris novel, Cast In Order of Disappearance, was published in 1975, and by 1979 he was able to leave LWT and become a full-time writer. He has written over eighty books, including nineteen Charles Paris books, fifteen Fethering Mysteries and six Mrs Pargeter novels, as well as several non-series titles such as A Shock to the System (1984), which was adapted as a film starring Michael Caine. He has also contributed to several anthologies and scripted many sitcoms for radio including No Commitments, Smelling of Roses and After Henry. 
 
Other radio work includes several one-off plays for Radio 4, and a number of episodes of the detective series Baldi. A former Chair of both the Crime Writers’ Association and The Society of Authors, he is currently President of the Detection Club, as well as being involved with various writers’ organisations. He is married with three children, and lives in West Sussex.

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