Guilty Party: When the BBC Let You Solve the Murder
Long before interactive television, podcasts, or true-crime games, the BBC tried something wonderfully audacious: it handed a fictional murder investigation to real detectives and invited the audience to solve it alongside them.
Guilty Party was no ordinary radio mystery. The crime and characters were prepared, but when the questioning began, the safety of the script largely disappeared. Experienced investigators interrogated the suspects, actors had to answer in character, and somewhere among them the guilty party had to survive the questioning without giving the game away.
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