Nigel Anthony

An enthusiast's guide to the shows that have made Radio 4 what it is, with an addictive mix of biography, anecdote and occasional useless fact. It also explores some of the wonderful corners of the network's history that are long forgotten by all but a few.

In the late nineteenth century Arthur is a doctor and writer in Edinburgh, and George is a solicitor in Birmingham. They are brought together by a sequence of events known as the Great Wyrley Outrages. Although these events occurred a century ago there are contemporary echoes in society today. Richard & Judy Bookclub.

Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, two young women had been found strangled, and every personal and professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. But he soon discovers that the past is a haunted place, with clues and passions that leave an indelible imprint on the here and now.

Psychiatrist, David McBride, is unusually drawn to death having witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother as a child. He finds himself intrigued by a patient, a failed suicide, whose tale unfolds in this story on the theme of redemption through love and art.

The Judds, formerly of London N1, now scattered, are about to be thrown together again by the eldest child Juliet's release from prison in New York. The family is devastated by Juliet's conviction for art theft. The nature of the theft, and the reasons for it, plague all the protagonists. Richard & Judy Bookclub. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Jerry Morner lives quietly in a cabin by the old quarry, hurting no one. Or that's what he wants people to believe. It takes one spark and a can of petrol to expose the truth. The fire is deadly. Not for Jerry, but for the two strangers found burnt to death inside. His son starts to search for answers. But he soon realises that some secrets are better left to the dead.

Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been tasked with solving a mystery relating to a series of deaths by what seem to be bear bites. But whatever kind of animal has thirty-three teeth?

A chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, brings Wexford out of retirement. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an advisor on a difficult case.