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Aldrich Kemp and the gang are back with some new faces as the race for the mysterious and elusive Rose of Pamir moves from London to Paris, New York to Amsterdam and the Maldives to Tajikistan.

Chapter Four: The Missing Child

Family challenges are coming from all directions as Clara races to a Manhattan rooftop and Mrs Bartholomew visits Themis House.

Clara Page - Phoebe Fox
Aldrich Kemp – Ferdinand Kingsley
Mrs Boone – Nicola Walker
Nakesha – Karla Crome
Sebastian Harcourt & the Dutch waiter – Kyle Soller
Aunt Lily – Susan Jameson 
The Underwood Sisters & Forsaken McTeague – Jana Carpenter
Mrs Bartholomew – Kate Isitt
Lionel – Steven Mackintosh
Selina – Catherine Kanter
Hazlitt - Ben Crowe

Written and directed by Julian Simpson
Music composed by Tim Elsenburg.

Sound Design: David Thomas
Producer: Sarah Tombling
Production Assistant: Ethan Elsenburg
Executive Producer: Karen Rose

New episodes available on Fridays. Listen first on BBC Sounds

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4

Aldrich Kemp and The Rose of Pamir: 4. The Missing Child

The race across the world for the mysterious and elusive Rose of Pamir reaches the Pamir Mountains and facilitates a family reunion.

Chapter Five: At The Roof of The World

Mountain-top scuffles as loyalties are tested and all is finally revealed.

Clara Page - Phoebe Fox
Aldrich Kemp – Ferdinand Kingsley
Mrs Boone – Nicola Walker
Sebastian Harcourt – Kyle Soller
Nakesha Kemp – Karla Crome
Aunt Lily – Susan Jameson 
The Underwood Sisters – Jana Carpenter
Lionel – Steven Mackintosh
Selina – Catherine Kanter
Hazlitt – Ben Crowe
Sabine Seah – Bec Boey

Written and directed by Julian Simpson
Music composed by Tim Elsenburg.

Sound Design: David Thomas
Producer: Sarah Tombling
Production Assistant: Ethan Elsenburg
Executive Producer: Karen Rose

New episodes available on Fridays. Listen first on BBC Sounds

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4

Aldrich Kemp and The Rose of Pamir: 5. At The Roof of The World

Cressida Yang, once a top gaming team pyschologist, thought she had left the esports world behind until the mysterious death of a former client thrusts her back into the spotlight.

Created by Pulitzer Prize winner, Anthony Del Col this is a nail-biting dive into the complex world of competitive gaming.

Don't Listen to This: Trailer

By Anthony Del Col

Gripping psychological thriller, set in the world of competitive gaming (esports). 

Cressida Yang was once a top esports psychologist, until she was scapegoated for the burn out of one of her clients. When her former colleague, Park, ropes her back in to do one last session to help out an underperforming player from his new team Klub Kinetic, Cressida is thrust back into dangerous a world she thought she had left behind. 

Cressida Yang...... Sophie Wu
Blu_Devil ..... Thaddea Graham
Park ..... Nikesh Patel
Rooftop ..... Jonny Weldon
Oliver/Officer Patel ..... Jaz Singh Deol
Khaaan/Gonzalez ..... Nuhazet Diaz Cano
Teenager ..... Andi Bickers
Teammate ..... Dan 'Foxdrop' Wyatt
Warstrm ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr

Production co-ordinator- Pippa Day 
Assistant Technical Producer- Mike Etherden
Technical Producer and Sound Designer- Sharon Hughes
Director- Nadia Molinari
Co-Producers- Nadia Molinari, Jessica Mitic, Lorna Newman

With thanks to Nimitt Mankad, Anthony Wastella and Geoff Moore.

A BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4

Don't Listen to This: Episode 1

By Anthony Del Col

Gripping psychological thriller, set in the world of competitive gaming (esports).

Esports psychologist, Cressida Yang is pulled back into the competitive gaming world. In the last couple of days, two esports players made contact with her just before they died. Cressida is unnerved and sets out to reveal the truth about what really happened. Taking matters into her own hands she visits the hotel where Khaan, one of the deceased players was staying. Can she uncover what is really going on here? 

Cressida Yang...... Sophie Wu
Blu_Devil ..... Thaddea Graham
Park ..... Nikesh Patel
Rooftop ..... Jonny Weldon
Oliver/Officer Patel ..... Jaz Singh Deol
Beckett Knox/Lars Persson ...... Samuel James
Ziggy..... Andi Bickers
Teammate ..... Dan 'Foxdrop' Wyatt
Warstrm ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr

Production co-ordinator- Pippa Day
Assistant Technical Producer- Mike Etherden
Technical Producer and Sound Designer- Sharon Hughes
Director- Jessica Mitic 
Co-Producers- Nadia Molinari, Jessica Mitic, Lorna Newman

With thanks to Nimitt Mankad, Anthony Wastella and Geoff Moore.

A BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4.

Don't Listen to This: Episode 2

By Anthony Del Col

Gripping psychological thriller, set in the world of competitive gaming (esports).

Cressida Yang, along with her former nemesis, Blu_Devil are trying to find out what happened to two esports players who died in mysterious circumstances. After attending the funeral of Lars Persson, they follow the scent of another lead. Which leads Blu_Devil to a place where she has to confront her difficult past. 

Cressida Yang ..... Sophie Wu
Blu_Devil ..... Thaddea Graham
Park ..... Nikesh Patel
Rooftop ..... Jonny Weldon
Gerald Lee ...... David K. S. Tse
Officer Patel ....... Jaz Singh Deol
Beckett Knox ....... Samuel James
Teammate ...... Dan Foxdrop Wyatt 
Warstrm ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr

Production co-ordinator- Pippa Day
Assistant Technical Producer- Mike Etherden
Technical Producer and Sound Designer- Sharon Hughes
Director- Lorna Newman
Co-Producers- Nadia Molinari, Jessica Mitic, Lorna Newman

Thanks to Nimitt Mankad, Anthony Wastella and Geoff Moore.

A BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4

Don't Listen to This: Episode 3

By Anthony Del Col

Gripping psychological thriller, set in the world of competitive gaming (esports).

Cressida Yang is forced into hiding when she is blamed for a string of murders which has sent shockwaves through the esports community. Determined to locate the Poka Yoke server and shut down the killer cutscene forever, Cressida embarks on a dangerous journey. But help comes just in time from an unexpected source.

Cressida Yang ..... Sophie Wu
Blu_Devil ..... Thaddea Graham
Park ..... Nikesh Patel
Rooftop ..... Jonny Weldon
Soji Sanada.....Togo Igawa
Gerald Lee ...... David K. S. Tse
Beckett Knox ....... Samuel James
Warstrm ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr

Production co-ordinator- Pippa Day
Assistant Technical Producer- Mike Etherden
Technical Producer and Sound Designer- Sharon Hughes
Director- Nadia Molinari
Co-Producers- Nadia Molinari, Jessica Mitic, Lorna Newman
Writer - Anthony Del Col

Thanks to Nimitt Mankad, Anthony Wastella and Geoff Moore.

A BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4.

Don't Listen to This: Episode 4

By Anthony Del Col

Gripping psychological thriller set in the world of competitive gaming (esports).

Cressida is shocked to discover the truth about Soji Sanada but together they must race to stop the killer and delete the remaining lethal cutscenes.

Cressida Yang ..... Sophie Wu
Blu_Devil ..... Thaddea Graham
Park ..... Nikesh Patel
Rooftop ..... Jonny Weldon
Soji Sanada.....Togo Igawa
Officer Patel ....... Jaz Singh Deol
Beckett Knox ....... Samuel James
Teammate ...... Dan Foxdrop Wyatt
Warstrm ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr

Production co-ordinator - Pippa Day
Assistant Technical Producer - Mike Etherden
Technical Producer and Sound Designer - Sharon Hughes
Director-Nadia Molinari
Co-Producers- Nadia Molinari, Jessica Mitic, Lorna Newman

Thanks to Nimitt Mankad, Anthony Wastella and Geoff Moore.

A BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4.

Don't Listen to This: Episode 5

Exemplar: Series 2: Trailer

A successful television actor hires Jess and Maya to analyse a voicemail, leaked to the press, that suggests he supplied the drugs that killed his younger co-star. The suspicion is that the recording has been doctored. 

As they disentangle the truth behind the missing 29 seconds in the voicemail, pushy Detective Sergeant Serena Gray hires Veritas to help with a phone-hacking investigation. 

Exemplar: “an audio recording made by a forensic analyst to recreate the precise audio conditions of a piece of evidence in a criminal or civil case.”

The return of a modern day thriller set in the world of audio forensics. In Exemplar, Gina McKee plays Jess, a forensic analyst born and bred in the North East. Together with her colleague Maya, she undertakes a different sound challenge in every episode. When DS Serena Gray comes into their world, things become a little bit more complicated. 

Created by leading sound designers, Ben and Max Ringham, and rooted in factual research. The first series of Exemplar won Best Series at the 2022 BBC Audio Drama Awards. 
 
Jess ….. Gina McKee
Maya ….. Shvorne Marks
DS Serena Gray….. Clare Perkins
Adam ….. Afnan Iftikhar
Jason ….. Benjamin Cawley
Chris ….. Malcolm Ridley

Writers: Ben and Max Ringham, with Dan Rebellato
Audio forensic consultants: James Zjalić, plus Dr Katherine Earnshaw and Bryony Nuttall, forensic specialists in speech and audio at the Forensic Voice Centre
Police consultant: Alex Ashton
Sound recordist: Alisdair McGregor
Production coordinator: Annie Keates Thorpe
Sound design: Ben and Max Ringham with Lucinda Mason Brown 
Original music: Ben and Max Ringham
Directors: Polly Thomas and Jade Lewis
Executive producer: Joby Waldman

A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4

Exemplar: Series 2: Episode 1

Jack Lowden presents a drama-documentary series on the rise and fall of Bonnie Prince Charlie. 

In 1745 Charles arrives in Scotland – with an army of just seven men. He must find a way to persuade thousands of Highland clansmen to risk their lives to join him in his bid to restore the Catholic Stuarts as the ruling monarchy of Great Britain. 

Written by Colin MacDonald with original music by Duncan Chisholm. 

Narrator ..... Jack Lowden

Bonnie Prince Charlie ..... Lorn Macdonald
Flora MacDonald ..... Hannah Donaldson
Colonel John O’Sullivan ..... Gavin Mitchell
Clan Chief MacDonald ..... Iain Macrae
Donald Cameron ..... Sam James Smith
Allan Cameron ..... Douglas Yannaghas

Written by Colin MacDonald

Music arranged by Duncan Chisholm
Music performed by Duncan Chisholm, Ingrid Henderson,
Martin O’Neill and Ross Ainslie.
With contributions by historians, Jacqueline Riding, Alistair Moffat 
and Maggie Craig

Edited by Kris MacConachie
Studio Managers Sean Mullervy and Kris MacConnachie
Executive Producer Gordon Kennedy
Broadcast Assistant Clare Hipkiss

Producer/Director Bruce Young

Recorded at BBC Scotland Drama Studios, Pacific Quay, Glasgow
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4

Pretender Prince: Episode 1: The King of Birds

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