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SamAgain

Could anyone please help out with "Motherhood: Bump, Birth and Beyond" ep. 1, was on R4 Extra, 22 Sep.

Liam

After I got an email from MF saying I hadn't used my site in a while, I figured it was time I shared something. I'm going to start adding the Charles Paris mysteries to it. I've started today with the two Francis Matthews ones:

MF/folder/h149k6cprkagh/Francis_Matthews

howbrown

Hi all,

I'm trying to get in touch with Phineus, but the email keeps bouncing back. Can anyone help?!

Thank you

Howbrown

Splanky

I know this is outwith the normal confines but does any kind person have the episode of Russell Davies' R2 show The Art of Artists in which he interviewed Anita Harris? It was Series 4 Episode 6.

westham

Harry
Thanks as always

HarrySpeakup

All the Lucy Porter Stand-Up Specials, plus a few earlier bootlegs:
+++ sendspace.com/file/56bxal
+++ sendspace.com/file/8jcr0q

And, my daughter worked with her last week, and said she was as lovely as you would hope...

westham

Regarding the Lucy Porter link, I believe that the ones at the Archive are the first - In the Family Way (2018) - and third - Back in the Family Way (2021) - so the second one from 2019 - In The Family Way Again - is missing, if anyone has it.

Golux

Harken all Just A Minute fans! You can rest easy, Episode 4 has been restored to us!

iPlayer has come to its senses and abandoned the strange renumbering of recent episodes. The current series is now listed as Episode 1 to Episode 6, sanity reigns again.

Steve

Thank you Ned for pointing the way to Lucy Porter.

WildeGreat

Count Arthur Radio Show is back recording, yay. Tickets here..https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/988691/chk/8298/?modal_widget=true&widget=true

SamAgain

Klarg,

Thanks for the help, very much appreciated.

Nice to have help when it's the beep messing up. It supposed to be me not them *chuckle*.

Ned in Boots

Steve, the 2 Lucy Porter specials are included in this collection of shows:
https://archive.org/details/bbcr4sus

Steve

Hello. Has anybody got the first 2 episodes of the 3 specials that Lucy Porter did in 2018 and 2019? In The Family Way and In The Family Way Again. Thanks.

Golux

iPlayer is retrospectively re-numbering episodes (again)

I was surprised to find Episode 6 of Just A Minute, the episode due to have its first broadcast next Monday (11th), being offered on iPlayer. When played, this turned out to be last Monday's Episode 5, now wrongly labelled Episode 6. Furthermore, the episode prior to that has been renumbered as Episode 5 and there is currently no episode called Episode 4!

This retrospective renumbering seems to happen more and more now.

Klarg

Quick Comedy is here:
https://gofile.io/d/s4Rnc9
.

SamAgain

Hey all,

BBC Radio Ulster has a new sketch show but even though it's radio, it's geolocked to the UK only.
The show is called "Quick Comedy", bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zcn0.

Can anyone put episodes 1-4 here please.
(episode 5 isn't geolocked for some reason like 1-4)

Klarg

A Deadly Habit part1 is here:
https://gofile.io/d/aU9rdE
.

Phil

Thanks Liam for the list of Charles Paris. I'd missed A Deadly Habit and Episode 1 has gone from BBC Sounds.

If anyone has a copy I'd be forever grateful...

howbrown

Thank you very much Old Soldier, coming to the rescue, once again!

All the Best

HowBrown

Brokenviolin

Stuart, ya a star !
Thanks sooo much ! The impossible is possible ! Ha !

Holocron

Hi, Brokenviolin,
Longshots a speciality!
Don't think this has been on since 2015, hence the smaller m4a file from getiplayer...
Johnny Clarke, always fun.
https://we.tl/t-esQGMUkADn

Cheers,
Stuart

oldsoldier

howbrown you should get an e-mail from the site owner

Brokenviolin

It's a long shot, but does anyone have John Cooper Clarkes' Blast of the Century episode on Vorticisim ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pl64f

Liam

Re CHARLES PARIS MYSTERIES:

Here's the books:

1. Cast, In Order of Disappearance (1975)
2. So Much Blood (1976)
3. Star Trap (1977)
4. An Amateur Corpse (1978)
5. A Comedian Dies (1979)
6. The Dead Side of the Mic (1980)
7. Situation Tragedy (1981)
8. Murder Unprompted (1982)
9. Murder in the Title (1983)
10. Not Dead, Only Resting (1984)
11. Dead Giveaway (1985)
12. What Bloody Man Is That? (1987)
13. A Series of Murders (1989)
14. Corporate Bodies (1991)
15. A Reconstructed Corpse (1993)
16. Sicken and So Die (1995)
17. Dead Room Farce (1998)
18. A Decent Interval (2013)
19. The Cinderella Killer (2014)
20. A Deadly Habit (2018)

Books 1&2 were adapted in the 1980s by Simon Brett himself, naturally sticking almost exactly to the original texts, with Francis Matthews playing Charles, and Jennifer Hilary playing Frances (typically only in one episode per series, much like Maurice, I forget who played him).

Then in 1999, Bert Coules adapted book 2 as a single hour-long dramatisation with Bill Nighy as Charles, and Jimmy Chisholm as his solicitor friend/sidekick Gerald Venables (he appears in the first nine books helping Charles with his investigations but then disappeared without explanation).

Then in 2004, Jeremy Front started writing the ones we all know and love, with Nighy reprising the role, supported by Suzanne Burden and Jon Glover as Frances and Maurice, and occasionally Tilly Gaunt & Thomas Arnold as Juliet & Miles. Gerald Venables was never used, and his role incorporated into that of Maurice. The first of these is a one-hour special, the rest are the 4x30min series we're familiar with.

Jeremy Front has adapted:

1. A Series Of Murders (2004)
2. Sicken and So Die, 2006
3. Murder Unprompted, 2007
4. The Dead Side of the Mic, 2008
5. Cast in Order of Disappearance, began 29 January 2010
6. Murder in the Title, began 22 November 2010
7. A Reconstructed Corpse, 2012
8. An Amateur Corpse, began 5 December 2012
9. Corporate Bodies, began 25 June 2014
10. A Decent Interval, 9–30 March 2016
11. The Cinderella Killer, began 2 December 2016
12. Dead Room Farce, 23 February to 16 March 2018
13. Star Trap, 6 March 2019
14. A Doubtful Death, 22 May to 12 June 2020
15. A Deadly Habit, 3 to 24 September 2021


A Doubtful Death was adapted not from a book but from an unmade television script.

That makes 15 mysteries on the radio scripted by Jeremy Front, one other with Bill Nighy and two with Francis Matthews, making 18 in total.

howbrown

Dear all,
I don't know if anyone can help on this board (and please forgive me if this request is inappropriate), but my computer crashed and lost my login detils to Otr-plus. I can't see how to retrieve my password on the site and I can't seem to email any of the moderators. If anyone has any ideas, I would be most grateful.

All the Best

Howbrown

Klarg

Phil, here again is Ed Reardon:
https://tinyurl.com/3jycpew5
(now in the same folder as Rich Hall). For free accounts, Gofile deletes member uploads following a period of inactivity.

MICHAEL STEVENS

I am showing 18 series in my Charles Paris Collection tho a couple are single episodes

MICHAEL STEVENS

Thanks Steve for series 41 of Quote
unquote' I have been looking for it for years

Steve

Hi Michael Stevens. Thank you for the missing Quote Unquote series. I have series 41 here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bsddog1176zn9/QUQ_Series_41 I only have afree account so it may disappear in 14 days

Phil

Ha - Matthew Paris indeed!

Doh

Phil

Hi Liam

I have 15 Charles Paris series - do you have more in your collection?

Agree that Bill Nighy is fantastic, but also liked Matthew Paris in the earlier ones...

Phil

Hi Klarg

Could you please re-upload Ed Reardon Series 14, your link seems to have expired.

Many thanks in anticipation of more administrative assininity...

David

Much appreciated, thank you!

Klarg

David, Rich Hall’s First 100 Days Breakdown is here:
https://gofile.io/d/ZfruW7
.

David

Would anyone happen to have Rich Hall’s First 100 Days Breakdown?

MICHAEL STEVENS

Here is your missing quote unquote series

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/gca3rvmx38ndl/Quote_Unquote

If you have series 41 I would like it very much

MICHAEL STEVENS

Just heard the sad news about quote unquote. Does this mean that of the 57 series that those are the only you are missing?

Mike

I have your missing series

Steve

Hello all. Having just heard that the next series of Quote Unquote is going to be the last I find I have some gaps in my collection. Does anyone have the following series please? 43/44/45/46 and 50. Many Thanks.