Shadow of Murder: The Forgotten Woman Behind a Saturday Night Theatre Favorite
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A murder mystery in the Scottish Highlands. A writer hidden behind more than one name. And a BBC radio drama that, more than sixty years later, has found an extraordinary new audience.
In this edition of Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we return to Shadow of Murder, the atmospheric BBC adaptation of a novel by Charity Blackstock—one of the pen names of the nearly forgotten British writer Ursula Torday.
From the Little Station on Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas, we explore the mystery itself, its Highland setting, the craft that makes it work so well…
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