Raymond Chandler - Philip Marlowe: The Long Goodbye

RAYMOND CHANDLER - PHILIP MARLOWE: THE LONG GOODBYE (320kbs-m4a/205mb/1hr29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st November 2025

The world-weary private eye helps a friendly drunk conceal a crime.

He's also asked to protect a drunken writer from his own violence.

A murder seems to connect the two cases. And Marlowe almost falls in love.

Raymond Chandler's classic noir novel, first published in 1953.

Starring Ed Bishop.

Powerful and atmospheric full-cast dramatisation by Bill Morrison.

Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
Eileen Wade .... Toby Robins
Lynda Loring .... Margaret Robinson
Roger Wade .... David March
Terry Lennox .... Peter Marinker
Howard Spencer .... Don Fellows
Mendy Melendez .... Blain Fairman
Bernie Ohis.... Harry Towb
Dr Loring .... Paul Maxwell
Harlan Potter .... Bob Sherman
Captain Hernandez .... Gordon Sterne
Lonnie Morgan .... Henry Knowles
Grantz .... Rod Beacham
Sergeant Greene .... William Roberts
Detective Dayton .... Neville Jason
Willie McGoon .... Bill Morrison
Chick Agostino .... Malcolm Gerrard
Candy .... Anthony Daniels
Barman .... Brian Hewlett

Director: John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978.

The Radio Detectives Series 3 - 2. Down The Mean Streets With Philip Marlowe

THE RADIO DETECTIVES SERIES 3 - 2. DOWN THE MEAN STREETS WITH PHILIP MARLOWE (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st November 2025

An exploration of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled, wisecracking American private-eye - who first appeared in 'The Big Sleep' published in 1939.

Professor Jeffrey Richards is hot on his trail.

With:

Phillip French
Van Heflin
Ed Bishop
John Tydeman
Bill Morrison

Affectionate series about popular radio detectives.

Producer: Liz Anstee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.

Raymond Chandler - Philip Marlowe: The Big Sleep

RAYMOND CHANDLER - PHILIP MARLOWE: THE BIG SLEEP (320kbs-m4a/204mb/90mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 11th June 2022

General Sternwood's daughters came in both the colours of trouble - blonde and brunette - and they had all the usual vices.

With $4,000,000 behind them, blackmail was only a matter of time. And blackmail can be murder.

It's another case for private eye Philip Marlowe.

Starring Ed Bishop.

Marlowe is Raymond Chandler's cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice...

Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
Gen Sternwood .... Robert Beatty
Carmen Sternwood .... Liza Ross
Vivian Regan .... Diana Olsson
Agnes .... Nicolette McKenzie
Harry Jones .... Don Fellows
Canino .... Peter Marinker
Mona .... Irene Sutcliffe
Capt Cronjager .... Henry Knowles
Art Huck .... Malcolm Gerard

Director John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1977.