Episode 2
Dalgliesh investigates a murder at an exclusive cosmetic surgery clinic. The owner of the clinic has just split up with his mistress and is facing the loss of his assistant surgeon.
PD James's latest Dalgliesh mystery, dramatised by Neville Teller.
A murder has taken place at an exclusive cosmetic surgery clinic in Dorset, and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate. The arrogant owner of the clinic, George Chandler-Powell has just split up with his mistress and is facing the loss of his assistant surgeon Marcus Westhall.
The Private Patient is the latest in the long-running Dalgliesh series, and the first to be dramatised on radio before television. The entire serial will be released on CD by 成人快手Audiobooks in June, and repeated on Radio 7 in August as part of a PD James season.
The dramatiser is Neville Teller, who also dramatised the previous Dalgliesh serial featuring Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew, A Taste For Death.
Narrator . . . . . . Carolyn Pickles
Dalgliesh . . . . . Richard Derrington
Kate Miskin . . . . . Deborah McAndrew
Rhoda Gradwyn . . . . . Christine Kavanagh
George Chandler-Powell . . . . . Jonathan Keeble
Flavia Holland . . . . . Vineeta Rishi
Harkness . . . . . Robert Lister
Whetstone . . . . . Mark Carey
Dr Glenister . . . . . Charlotte West-Oram
Dramatised by Neville Teller
Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild.