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Clouds of Witness
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  • Published: 1 February 2010
  • ISBN: 9781408439722
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 0 min
  • Narrators: Ian Carmichael, Patricia Routledge
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Clouds of Witness

A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

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21 Feb 2023
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Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.

In a shocking scandal, the like of which has not been seen in the English aristocracy since the eighteenth century, Lord Peter Wimsey's elder brother, the Duke of Denver, stands accused of murder. Lord Peter is determined to prove his brother's innocence, yet finds him strangely uncooperative. Furthermore, other family members apparently oppose Peter's attempts to get to the truth. His sister, Lady Mary, seems to know more than she is letting on - could the Duke be protecting her? In collaboration with Inspector Parker, Wimsey slowly uncovers a web of lies and deceit within his own family, and finds himself faced with the unhappy alternative of sending either his brother or his sister to the gallows. Until he himself becomes a target... Patricia Routledge plays the Dowager Duchess in this classic dramatisation, alongside Maria Aitken as Lady Mary and Miriam Margolyes as Mrs Hardraw.
  • Published: 1 February 2010
  • ISBN: 9781408439722
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 0 min
  • Narrators: Ian Carmichael, Patricia Routledge
Categories:

About the author

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893. She published her first detective novel, Whose Body?, in 1923, introducing Lord Peter Wimsey to the world. Ten more 'Wimsey' novels and four collections of short stories followed, as well as many other works of crime fiction, non-fiction and plays. Her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy is highly acclaimed, as is her cycle of twelve plays on the life of Jesus, The Man Born to be King, which was broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1941-1942. She died in 1957, leaving behind notes and fragments of an unfinished 'Wimsey' story - Thrones, Dominations - which was subsequently completed by Jill Paton Walsh and published in 1998. Paton Walsh has since written three other Lord Peter Wimsey books.

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Also by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Man Born To Be King
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 3
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 2
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 1
Busman's Honeymoon
Whose Body?
Strong Poison
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Praise for Clouds of Witness

A blow-by-blow account of the fateful day. I couldn't put it down.

Independent

'Gripping . The hour-by-hour account is packed with fascinating and often poignant vignettes'

Daily Express, 5 stars

Kershaw writes well and makes sense of the battle ... a clear and straightforward military view.

Literary Review

Shows us the battle at its grittiest and bloodiest, but through it all manages to maintain a grip on the bigger picture.

Scotsman

So where does this leave Robert Kershaw's 24 Hours at Waterloo? Very simply, in a class of its own ... brings the events to life with judiciously chosen first-hand accounts ... there could be no better companion to the battlefield than Kershaw's.

Spectator