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Dead Pan. Image shows from L to R: DS Jason Trotter (John Hollingworth), DCI Alma Blair (Julie Hesmondhalgh), CSM Jo Black (Jane Hazlegrove). Copyright: Savvy Productions
Dead Weight

Dead Weight

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2018
  • 5 episodes (1 series)

Radio 4 comedy drama by Val McDermid about a death at a slimming club. Also features Julie Hesmondhalgh, Jane Hazlegrove, John Hollingworth, Jonathan Keeble, Nitin Kundra and Helen Kay

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Dead Clever. Image shows from L to R: DS Jason Trotter (John Hollingworth), DCI Alma Blair (Julie Hesmondhalgh). Copyright: Savvy Productions

Val McDermid's Dead Comedy Crime Dramas

A series of crime-based comedy drama for Radio 4, written by Val McDermid.

Deadheading. Image shows from L to R: CSM Jo Black (Miriam Margolyes), DCI Alma Blair (Julie Hesmondhalgh). Copyright: Savvy Productions Radio

Deadheading

Best selling crime writer Val McDermid turns to comedy capers among the carrots, as we rummage through the undergrowth of a murder on the allotments.

Dead Clever. Image shows from L to R: DS Jason Trotter (John Hollingworth), DCI Alma Blair (Julie Hesmondhalgh). Copyright: Savvy Productions Radio

Dead Clever

DCI Alma Blair and DS Jason Trotter investigate murder in the Geography Department of a Russell Group university in the North of England.

Dead Pan. Image shows from L to R: DS Jason Trotter (John Hollingworth), DCI Alma Blair (Julie Hesmondhalgh), CSM Jo Black (Jane Hazlegrove). Copyright: Savvy Productions Radio

Dead Pan

Radio 4 comedy drama by Val McDermid about a death at a restaurant.

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