This was such a good story. As an American, it’s hilarious to me that blackmail is still a serious crime or plot to a story in English culture.
@0707Denisem2 күн бұрын
I still have another 40 min to go, but the story and the presentation are both excellent. I'll be back to finish as soon as I can. Thank you!
@claretoland3962 күн бұрын
⭐👍Wow! A brilliant story, Completely captivating, right up to the end. Superb narration.👏⭐ listening in Donegal, Ireland ☘🇮🇪 Thank you so much for sharing.❤
@rominaahmad51883 күн бұрын
Fantastic story.
@armondlevinia92213 күн бұрын
Wow, this was good.
@davidwhite72943 күн бұрын
This is very silly and completely unrealistic ...coppers just dont bowl into peoples houses on their own making all sorts of wild accusations with no warrant and no back up ....l,d liketo see him try that around where l live.
@Gillby474 күн бұрын
Excellent,just what we expect from Mr Whalley.What a horrid wife,really enjoyed the implied ending.
@EBSJones45 күн бұрын
God, that was good. I HAD to find out what happened.
@islandgirl5815 күн бұрын
Fab... Thank you for posting 🎉
@tedtalksrock5 күн бұрын
22:31 lol Hard to find good help these days! 😂
@stringlarson12475 күн бұрын
This is great stuff. New to me. I've been on a news blackout, and this stuff has been perfect for sharing space with an ostrich.
@martinadarcy7815 күн бұрын
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@kayvassiliou57466 күн бұрын
Quite a twist at the end! 😊
@Catsmeow906 күн бұрын
I would dump the wife she's a total pain and go find a Malissa!
@janetathanasopoulou20026 күн бұрын
A really brilliant radio play. Wingfield never disappoints. And I have just realised that he is the author of the excellent D.I Frost books.
@mariasmargiassi19837 күн бұрын
Thank you, like the other comments this is new to me and throughly enjoyed it.
@cacambo5897 күн бұрын
"conflabbing" = confabulation. Don't know why people often put an 'l' after the 'f'.
@valeofglamman32258 күн бұрын
Bob Peck was superb in that excellent 1980s tv series Edge of Darkness. He's also good in this radio drama.
@rsole83919 күн бұрын
Betty life story was really interesting, what a fantastic singer and actress. Amazing career BRAVO 👏 god bless herb soul
@JanetElson9 күн бұрын
Dry witty writing.
@hamidmazuji9 күн бұрын
the reading was excellent, the story was well written, however, i cringe at imagining being married to such a dingbat. take the blackmail letters as a gift from on high, and here's your chance to get out
@cajsheen259410 күн бұрын
Top class entertainment, the kind we used to be able to enjoy! ❤ XXX
@TheYorkshirelady11 күн бұрын
I certainly didn’t fall asleep through this one, what a plot twist, loved it. 👏👏👏
@BeautifulEarthJa11 күн бұрын
A look into UK's nasty activities. Ugh. I need a palate cleanser.
@BeautifulEarthJa11 күн бұрын
Inception...
@miranda759811 күн бұрын
I loved this. Peter Whalley was a fantastic writer. Thank you so much for uploading ❤
@andreacraik975712 күн бұрын
You’re a student… you’re expected to do menial work. When I was in collage, my folks said “come on up to our cabin in Oregon for spring break, bring your friends”! Cabin was a large, full wall of windows looking over the Deschutes River! We showed up and found gallons of paint, and instructions to paint the entire interior!
@EVZYL12 күн бұрын
Wow, that was SO good. Thanks for the upload.
@Teapot33312 күн бұрын
Brilliant 👌👌 thanks for sharing
@stevebryce5412 күн бұрын
A cut above.
@pamelacorbett877412 күн бұрын
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
@user-iw8mg4sg4l12 күн бұрын
100% excellent. I wish there were more ones like that
@58christiansful13 күн бұрын
I have now listened to 3 and a half episodes and the story is absolutely riveting. It promises to be PW’s best. The very strange, vert intriguing situation brings to mind Francis Durbridge - though the trouble with FD is that his tales veer between the riveting and the ridiculous. Hope Peter Whalley completes his story on the high note he started it and has managed so far to maintain. NB The name of call girl Melissa suggests a kind of homage being paid to Durbridge - one of whose most famous tv series is called Melissa.
@johndean95813 күн бұрын
I was really caught up in this. I wanted it to end when the Lawyer Friend admitted it and the accused could have made him own up to all and sundry. It had me on edge. Strange to say that. It got me so involved and tesnse. WOW, the acting was so real. John (Australia)
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts7 күн бұрын
Ooh! You're supposed to put a spoiler alert! Some people get quite upset when the ending is given away! 😁
@Catsmeow906 күн бұрын
You are a naughty boy John!!! Giving away story lines. Tut, tut!
@michaelblunk13713 күн бұрын
The ending caught me off guard. What a delightful tale!
@footfault17 күн бұрын
What a way to be introduced to Whalley's work! Outstanding. By the way, did the cops even try to find fingerprints at the scene?????
@mimipinello863217 күн бұрын
The actors are amazing. Everybody was great love the story.❤
@Catsmeow906 күн бұрын
Really not struck on the wife's voice..a bit too BBC English.
@patsy643918 күн бұрын
Loved it. Thanks
@maryryan527718 күн бұрын
Really enjoyed this drama
@grzegorzmielcarek435919 күн бұрын
Peter Whalley never disappoints. Peculiar talent to almost always get a thriller right.
@oliviapeart779719 күн бұрын
If the characters, including the wife, wasnt as they were the story wouldnt be as it IS ... enjoy it and stop with the criticisms. Enjoy P.W's work !!!
@maccoll364419 күн бұрын
Excellent.. just like all Whalley's plays! Thank you.
@sarahclements708220 күн бұрын
Very clever...I hope there are more undiscovered stories from Peter, thought I'd heard them all.
@AnneAinsworth-y8g22 күн бұрын
The best story I've heard yet - wonderful acting and even more wonderful timing. Thank you for sharing.
@jamesmatthews415122 күн бұрын
Bravo! More plot twists and turns than a mountain road along with great voicing. I wish there would be a part 2.
@patriciallamas205022 күн бұрын
Utterly brill! 👏🏻👏🏻✨
@TedaR22 күн бұрын
Just heard this recently elsewhere. It’s pretty good.
@hv1946FLUSA23 күн бұрын
Excellent!
@sohara....24 күн бұрын
Have you seen all the episodes? If you want to make comments below, I'd be glad to read them. Would love to discuss.... Thanks. *SPOILER ALERT* There will be comments about plot below. Come back later ... if you want the suspense of not knowing. Thanks. This is my furst time listening to a play by Peter Whalley. Online, discovered he's written many, many many episodes of the British soap, *Coronation Street.* He's a great writer! Loving this story.
@sohara....23 күн бұрын
*By end of episode 1, there'd been a number of clues, or red herrings!* - blackmail, it's usually someone you know - the daughter's *boyfriend* is writing a story about law, he's a lawyer, I think. He may be the red herring, or maybe not! - *the wife* could be testing him! He may have had other dalliance that she's seen signs of, but she hasn't been able to pin him down! You're very clever, she has implied he's cunning: that he'd be two steps ahead of any investigation she might do into a real-life love affair. When he set up the company, going out on his own, he'd told her there'd be lots of travel involved! In Episode One, or possibly beginning of next one, she has said she had been expecting him to be unfaithful, and had in her own way accepted it as part of marriage. We don't yet know what her career is, I skipped a bit, maybe it was said already, or that becomes part of a future plot point. - protagonist has history of someone who kept themselves hidden or secret giving him a hard time; happened when he was young, playing sports, and someone he had bested on the field was getting their own back by causing problems: a revenge motive: with ENVY suggested. One suspect, unlikely possibly, but unlikely things happen in mystery fiction (as in life!) is the next-door *neighbour* who is clearly henpecked, and possibly he's envious of the happy marriage. The fact that neighbour suggests *his detective* embroil neighbour further in plot! Nice array of suspects and red herrings. . By beginning of Episode 3, am wondering if it's the man himself! Seems improbable. He says he's fighting for his marriage. But wife suggests he's cunning. We are not seeing any psychological complexities in dialogue, no gaslighting for example, so relying on details given in plot.
@sohara....24 күн бұрын
*The actress playing the wife is amazing.*
@sohara....23 күн бұрын
Thought it was amazing how she shows suspicion but in a very unaccented manner, very low key, just posing questions. If she'd been more emotional, it might have got in way of story, imo. Her name is Sandra Clark, they said at end. Not much about her online. Think she's been in *Eastenders*