Maigret
Georges Simenon and Ros Schwartz
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A new translation of this gripping novel which sees the inspector brought out of his peaceful...
No Way Home
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A relaxing trail ride turns tragic when Paramedic and Deputy Coroner Zoe Chambers discovers the body...
Dead Silent
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Digging for the truth can be fatal...20 years ago, Britain was rocked by the strange disappearance...
Death of a Busybody
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The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybody is Miss Ethel Tither. She has made herself deeply...
Whispers Under Ground: The Third PC Grant Mystery
Stephen Walter and Ben Aaronovitch
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Doctor Who Screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch's superbly entertaining supernatural crime series has, with...
Greig Plays: v. 1: Europe; The Architect; The Cosmonaut's Last Message
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The first collection of plays of one of Scotland's best-known contemporary dramatists EUROPE is set...
Outlaw: How I Became Britain's Most Wanted Man
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Ray Bishop was on the run, skulking in a dealer's house in north London, when an image of his face...
The Kingdom (2007)
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Thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper. When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western...
Clearly made on a punishingly low budget, and the vision of the future is occasionally a bit wonky from a modern perspective, but the five episodes written by series creator Chris Boucher are some of the best, most intelligent, wittiest and most cynical SF ever broadcast by the BBC. The other episodes not so much: everything gets a bit campy and there are a lot of national stereotypes on display. (Plus, the theme tune has been called the worst in TV history, and most of the incidental music is rubbish too.) Even when it's not particularly good, it's always trying to do something a bit different, and David Calder is consistently excellent as Spring. Not the first nor the last SF or fantasy show to be cut loose by the BBC before it had a chance to realise its potential.