The Terrible Connxion Episode 1 by Michael Robson

1 Saturday-Night Theatre: The Terrible Connexion
Sat 19th Apr 1975, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
By Michael Robson
'An ugly fog this morning. An eerie fog. A fog that can be a fit companion only for deeds of stealth. Touching the current case, Mr Greenleaf, we have our work cut out. We do indeed. The identity of the deceased is unknown - as yet.’
Producer David Spenser
Eleanor Delahunty: Liane Aukin
Dynasty Surecard: Anthony Hall
Sir Lisbon Delahunty MP: Denis McCarthy
Rowland Stanyhurst: Simon Lack
Caroline Stanyhurst: Diana Berriman
Education Greenleaf: Trader Faulkner
Cluny Wilbraham: Michael Burlington
Hester Tang: Olwen Griffiths
Emily Tang: Kate Coleridge
The Ancient Theaker: John Hollis
Serjeant Clench: Stephen Thorne
Dead Bob: Peter Pacey
Mrs Olliphant: Kathleen Helme
Mr Collinge: Gerald Cross
Counsel for the Prosecution: Malcolm Hayes
Nigel Stock as Inspector Millions
By Michael Robson
The Terrible Connexion, The first of two Victorian mysteries solved by 'the eccentric Inspector Millions', as the Radio Times has it.
Its companion-piece is The Instruments of Darkness
Both plays are self-consciously baroque and establish their own idiom, with formal dialogue, fanciful crimes and grotesque characters with outre names. Nigel Stock plays the inspector with great panache, relishing his lines and contriving to make him at once absurd and impressive. Anthony
Hall is his piping sidekick, the industrious Dynasty Surecard.
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