A Charles Paris Mystery - Complete BBC Radio Crime Dramas - 2024 UPDATE - Simon Brett, Jeremy Front, Bert Coules

Written by Simon Brett, Jeremy Front, Bert Coules
Read by Bill Nighy, Suzanne Burden, Jon Glover, Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Dramatization

The complete (to date December 2024) BBC Radio collection of Charles Paris Mysteries by Simon Brett.

If you are seeding the old torrent, please delete it but keep the files. All pre-existing files should stay intact, the unchanged episodes should pass the check and you’ll be 70% done already. The newly upgraded files are all m4b replacing mp3. The are not the same source and the new ones will sound better.

Starring Bill Nighy as Charles Paris, an unhappily separated (but not divorced, more than 30 years on), moderately successful character actor with a slight drinking problem who gets entangled in various crimes, and finds himself unwillingly in the role of amateur detective.

Adapted by Bert Coules (So Much Blood - Version 1) and Jeremy Front (all other stories) with Suzanne Burden as Frances and Jon Glover as Maurice.

These are mainly my recordings from BBC Sounds/iPlayer encoded as vbr chaptered m4b, The exceptions being the five stories from ‘A Series of Murders’ to ‘Cast in Order of Disappearance’ which came from Audible (no recoding)

I did recode the Bert Coules episode as it had masses of hiss, ear-scraping treble & almost no bass. I EQ’d it and reduced the hiss. It doesn’t sound great, but it’s acceptable.

I have also included an earlier, unrelated production done in the 1980s for BBC Radio 2. It starred Frances Matthews as Charles Paris and was adapted for radio by the author. There were two series which were for some reason recorded in mono. Both are included here.

Starring Bill Nighy:-

1 - So Much Blood adapted by Bert Coules (Despite starring Bill Nighy, this is unrelated to the series that follows as in 2023 Jeremy Front adapted this story for his own series.

2 - A Series of Murders

3 - Sicken and So Die

4 - Murder Unprompted

5 - Dead Side of the Mic

6 - Cast in Order of Disappearance

7 - Murder in the Title

8 - A Reconstructed Corpse

9 - An Amateur Corpse

10 - Corporate Bodies

11 - A Decent Interval

12 - The Cinderella Killer

13 - Dead Room Farce

14 - Star Trap

15 - A Doubtful Death

16 - A Deadly Habit

17 - So Much Blood

Starring Frances Matthews:-

1 - Cast in Order of Disappearance

2 - So Much Blood