The Club Of Queer Trades (2005) [RadioRip (mp3)]

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The Club Of Queer Trades
Broadcast April/May 2005 on BBC Radio4.

Tech: mp3 138 kbps.

Episode 01: The Tremendous Adventures Of Major Brown (4th April 2005)

Retired KC Basil Grant, his brother Rupert and colleague Charlie Swinburne receive a visit from Major Brown at Basil's garrett in Lambeth. The retired soldier recounts a tale which begins with a most disturbing discovery. While taking his daily constitutional his attention is directed to a marvellous display of yellow pansies that spell out the chilling slogan: 'Death to Major Brown'. What follows is possibly the most extraordinary tale of all time.

Basil Grant... David Warner
Charlie Swinburne.... Geoffrey Mcgivern
Gardener....Martin Hyder
Major Brown... Geoffrey Whitehead
Old man....Martin Hyder
PG Northover....Martin Hyder
Rupert Grant... Martin Freeman
The lady...Vicki Pepperdine

By....G K Chesterton
Dramatised by.... Simon Littlefield

Episode 02: The Painful Fall Of A Great Reputation (11th April 2005)

This week's extraordinary tale finds Basil Grant, retired KC, his brother, Rupert and his colleague Charlie Swinburne on the top deck of a tramcar travelling through the 'squalid eternity' of North London. In the midst of a sea of cadgers, pickpockets and hooligans, Basil spies one Mr Wimpole - who he claims is the wickedest man in England. At Charlie's reasonable demands for proof Basil throws them into a frantic chase across London.

Basil Grant....David Warner
Charlie Swinburne....Geoffrey Mcgivern
Drummond....Nicholas Farrell
Lord Beaumont....Geoffrey Whitehead
Muriel....Alice Lowe
Rupert Grant....Martin Freeman
Sir Walter Chumley....Richard Griffiths
Wimpole....Justin Edwards

Episode 03: The Awful Reason Of The Vicar's Visit (18th April 2005)

A mystery, especially when that most distressed reverend gentleman begins his tale of a monstrous outrage committed against him. However, when Basil leaps at the cleric and demands to see him 'without his whiskers!', both Charlie and Rupert believe he has finally taken leave of his peculiar senses Or is there a method to the vicars mad tale that may link him to the Club of Queer Trades.

Basil Grant....David Warner
Brett....Matthew Holness
Charlie Swinburne....Geoffrey Mcgivern
James....Alexei Sayle
Mowbray....Neil Edmond
Reverend Shorter....Richard Griffiths
Rupert Grant....Martin Freeman
The constable....Martin Hyder

Episode 04: The Singular Speculation Of The House Agent (25th April 2005)

The tale of a mad military adventurer, Lieutenant Drummond Keith, whom Rupert believes to be a rogue. He insists they follow him - en route witnessing a disturbing incident with the lieutenant's sword-stick and meeting a house-agent with a fondness for ferrets. But Keith gives them the slip amidst the trees of Buxton Common. And while Charlie and Rupert remain stumped, Basil's powers of detection reach new heights in the search for Lieutenant Drummond Keith.

Basil Grant....David Warner
Charlie Swinburne....Geoffrey Mcgivern
Lieutenant Keith....Jeff Harding
Montmorency....Simon Jones
Rupert Grant....Martin Freeman
The constable....Martin Hyder

Episode 05: The Noticeable Conduct Of Professor Chadd (2nd May 2005)

The conduct of Professor Chadd is apparent to everyone who calls at the home of the noted ethnologist. However, his three sisters become alarmed when he suddenly refuses to speak. The sisters waste no time in summoning the Professor's equally eccentric acquaintance, Basil Grant. Can Basil save the highly respected Professor from his madness and the wrath of his employers at the British Museum? And just why does Professor Chadd insist on shaking his leg in the manner of a bee?

Adeleide....Felicity Montagu
Basil Grant....David Warner
Bingham....Chris Douglas
Charlie Swinburne....Geoffrey Mcgivern
Christina....Amelia Bullmore
Dr Colman....Martin Hyder
Professor Chadd....John Nettleton
Rupert Grant....Martin Freeman

Episode 06: The Eccentric Seclusion Of The Old Lady (9th May 2005)
The eccentric seclusion of the old lady is revealed to Rupert and Charlie after her cries distract them from a pleasant summer evening, spent in the pursuit of a careless milkman. Her desperate cry of "when shall I get out?" spurs Rupert and Basil to immediate action and to housebreaking. When the old lady refuses to leave her subterranean cell, even the great Basil Grant is at a loss to solve this particular London crime.

Basil Grant....David Warner
Burrows....Justin Edwards
Charlie Swinburne....Geoffrey Mcgivern
Greenwood....James Rawlings
Rupert Grant....Martin Freeman
The old lady....Angela Thorne

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