Saturday 20 April – 2.30-3.30pm on BBC Radio 4
Emilia Fox, Ben Caplan and Patricia Hodge star in a dramatisation of the novel that Alfred Hitchcock based his film Suspicion on.
Set in the early 1930s. Lina – a girl in her late twenties from a wealthy family – is in danger of becoming a spinster, but life changes for the better when Lina meets Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming stranger who proposes marriage.
Johnnie saves Lina from a boring life with her parents and whisks her off on an extravagant honeymoon. But on their return Lina begins to discover that Johnny is not all he seems. His gambling threatens to ruin them but is her growing suspicion that he is also a murderer founded on reality or her imagination?
With Emilia Fox as Lina, Ben Caplan as Johnnie, Patricia Hodge as Miss Sedbusk, Sam Dale as Captain Melbeck, David Timson as Thwaite, Hannah Wood as Ethel and Rick Warden Dr Fielding. Written by Frances Iles, adapted for radio by Ronald Frame.
Producer/ David Ian Neville
Source: bbc.co.uk