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The Recall Man
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Crime Drama
- Narrated by: full cast, Jeremy Swift, Andrew Harrison, Paul Brennen, Janet Dibley
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Radio/TV Programme
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Summary
Seven gripping dramas featuring forensic psychologist and memory expert Dr Joe Aston
Returning to his home town of Middlesborough on a six-month attachment to the Teesside police, criminal psychologist Joe Aston is called in for seven unusual and baffling cases. As a specialist in the controversial field of 'recovered memory', his skills are crucial: only he can uncover the truth by persuading victims, witnesses and suspects to remember what they'd rather forget....
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Making Waves finds a confused diver claiming to have witnessed an old murder: can his memory be trusted?
In Over the Border, Aston probes a taxi driver who may be the sole witness to a gangland killing, but claims to remember nothing.
In Stepping Out, he finds his position under threat when rival psychologist Beth Webster is hired to investigate a spate of attacks on young women.
Taken by Surprise sees Aston resorting to unorthodox methods to secure an identification of the main suspect in a kidnapping case.
In Can't See for Looking, a witness to an arson attack swears she saw a rhinoceros throwing a petrol bomb: can Aston discover what she really saw?
Finally, in Best Forgotten, the forensic psychologist uncovers fresh information about an unsolved robbery from 1952 - but the newfound facts have some unwelcome implications....
Written by David Napthine and Steven Chambers, these gripping dramas star Jeremy Swift as Dr Joe Aston, with Paul Brennen as DC Patten, Janet Dibley as DI Reynolds and Andrew Harrison as DC Hamilton.
Credits
Written by David Napthine and Steven Chambers
Produced and directed by Toby Swift and Mary Peate
Starring Jeremy Swift as Dr Joe Aston
Doctor Joe Aston Investigates
Grace Hayle - Rosie Cavaliero
Dl Karen Dennis - Carolyn Pickles
Tom Aston - Colin MacLachlan
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DC Talbot - Sue Scott Davison
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 7th December 2001
Making Waves
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DC Talbot - Sue Scott Davison
Defence Counsel - Andrew Harrison
George - James Gaddas
Jane - Elizabeth Carling
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 31st October 2003
Over the Border
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Tommy - Vincent Friell
DC Hamilton - Andrew Harrison
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 7th November 2003
Stepping Out
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Beth - Tessa Peake-Jones
Linda - Sue Scott Davison
Nicola - Suzanne Heathcote
DC Hamilton - Andrew Harrison
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 14th November 2003
Taken by Surprise
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Bill - Andrew Dunn
Tony - Gerard McDermott
Moira - Susan Jameson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 26th September 2005
Can't See for Looking
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Donna - Sharon Percy
Billy - Michael Imerson
Alison - Colleen Prendergast
Steve - Wayne Foskett
Asif - Shiv Grewal
Mickey - Michael Hodgson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3rd October 2005
Best Forgotten
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Tom - Colin MacLachlan
Frankie - Maurice Roëves
Sue - Sheila Tait
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 10th October 2005
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- Phil
- 28-06-22
Boring
Not the greatest story I've bought. Very slow and low key. The climax of each tale is so subtle that you don't realise it's happened. Also, a lot of the main character voices sound similar and do its difficult understand who is speaking. Didn't like it and didn't finish it, as it literally put me to sleep one evening.
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- Thomas
- 18-12-21
Radio drama for fans of TV's Unforgotten
Atmospheric, realistic, filled with Middlesborough accents and colour as well as credible detail about the way memory works or doesn't, these short crime dramas take all sorts of stylistic risks, requiring the listener to pay attention. At first I was worried the style (eg music, background character stories, information about memory, implied conversations...) would overtake the stories but by the end I wanted to listen to the series again. If you enjoyed the British TV crime series Unforgotten I think you'll also enjoy this radio drama.