Inspector Steine
- Radio comedy drama
- BBC Radio 4
- 2007 - 2013
- 25 episodes (4 series)
Comedy drama about three policemen in 1950s Brighton. Inspector Steine fails to spot the station's charlady is a criminal mastermind. Stars Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Matt Green, Jan Ravens, Samantha Spiro and more.
Episode menu
The Adventures Of Inspector Steine, Episode 1 - While The Sun Shines
Further details
Back in Brighton, following an attachment at Scotland Yard, Twitten finds Brunswick more depressed than ever about villainy in Brighton. To cheer him up, Twitten persuades Brunswick's favourite writer Harry Jupiter, crime reporter for the Daily Clarion, to interview Brunswick for a feature on the ordinary heroic policeman. Brunswick is jubilant - it is finally his day. But when Inspector Steine takes Jupiter to Brighton Pier, disaster ensues and Brunswick's euphoria turns to unmitigated rage.
Does Brunswick really want to murder Inspector Steine and can Twitten and Mrs Groynes do anything to stop him?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 25th September 2009
- Time
- 11:30am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Michael Fenton Stevens | Inspector Steine |
| John Ramm | Brunswick |
| Matt Green | Twitten |
| Samantha Spiro | Mrs Groynes |
| Philip Jackson | Harry Jupiter |
| David Holt | Ensemble Actor |
| Lynne Truss | Writer |
| Karen Rose | Producer |
| Anthony May | Composer |
Press
Bright Constable Twitten (Matt Green) wants to cheer up poor Sergeant Brunswick (John Ramm) but it's hard going when they're under the command of Inspector Steine (pronounced Steen and played by Michael Fenton Stevens) who can't spot a crime when it's going on in his own nick. As it often is, as their cleaning lady Mrs Groynes (Samantha Spiro) is a criminal mastermind. Enter Harry Jupiter (Philip Jackson), top reporter and Brunswick's idol. You have to be spry to follow the twists in Lynne Truss's cartwheeling comedy.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 25th September 2009