Curlew In Autumn by Edward Boyd

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A vintage thriller serial in six episodes by Edward Boyd
with David Ashton as Peter Calman

01 Bankrupt

A small town in Galloway, on the South-west coast of Scotland. A cottage mysteriously unchanged since 1941. A dead nurse. And lawyer Peter Caiman with £1 million in his bank account, and no idea how it got there.

Peter Calman: David Ashton
Jenny: Stella Forge
Magda: Vivienne Dixon Old Hansford:
Ian Stewart Douglas: Robert Paterson
Jock: John Shedden
Receptionist: Tamara Kennedy
Anderson/McLeod: John Buick
Nurse Nicolson: Anne Cullen

02 Hit and Run 27:17

Nurse Nicolson lies dead in the mortuary. Suspicion lies on Peter Caiman. And someone is lying through their teeth.

Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher
Peter Caiman: David Ashton
Anderson/mcLeod: John Buick
Douglas/Elphinstone: Robert Paterson
Magda: Vivienne Dixon
Old Hansford: Ian Stewart

03 The Cottage 52:02

A mysterious German patriarch, a model of a Junkers 88, another unexplained death - perhaps Caiman should have taken up jogging after all.

Peter Caiman: David Ashton
Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher
Jenny: Stella Forge
Old Hansford: Ian Stewart
Scholl: Brown Derby
Mary: Doreen Cameron
Receptionist: Tamara Kennedy
Dr Webber: Sandy Neilson

04 The Hermit 1:15:52

Old Hansford has died. Tim Leighton has disappeared. Dr Webber has a suspicious suntan. Hardly the time, you would think, for Caiman to go poaching at Dungrennan Bay.
Peter Caiman: David Ashton

Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher
Jenny: Stella Forge
Brill: Finlay Welsh
Scholl: Brown Derby
Dr Webber: Sandy Neilson

05 Dungrennan Bay 1:38:58

In which Caiman takes the Tinker's path to moonlit Dungrennan Bay - and gets singed by a fat dragon in a Welshman's cave.

Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher.
Walter Hansford: Ronald Aitken
Bullivant: Arthur Boland
Brill/Clerk: Finlay Welsh
Receptionist: Tamara Kennedy
Douglas: Robert Paterson

06 Back to the Cave 2:04:14

The Temple of Peace, the missing hermit, the dead nurse and the model Junkers 88 - it's all coming together. But the Fat Man is trying to make Peter Caiman fall apart.

Peter Caiman: David Ashton
Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher
Jenny: Stella Forge
Walter Hansford: Ronald Aitken
Scholl: Brown Derby
Chief Constable: John Buick
Constable Douglas: Robert Paterson
Bullivant: Arthur Boland
Leighton: Tom Criddle

Directed by: Patrick Rayner BBC Scotland
First broadcast:
From Sun 8th Apr 1984, 19:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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