''Inspector Steine'' is a radio comedy drama series written by
Lynne Truss and produced by Sweet Talk for
BBC Radio 4. The producer is Karen Rose and music is by Anthony May.
Set in a police station in
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
in the 1950s, it tells the story of Inspector Steine (
Michael Fenton Stevens) and his colleagues Sergeant Brunswick (
John Ramm) and Constable Twitten (
Matt Green), plus the station charlady Mrs Groynes (
Jan Ravens in Series 1 and
Samantha Spiro from Series 2 onwards).
Guest stars have included
Janet Ellis
Janet Ellis, (born 16 September 1955) is an English television presenter, actress and writer, who is best known for presenting the children's television programmes ''Blue Peter'' and ''Jigsaw'' between 1979 and 1987. She has published two novel ...
,
Mark Heap,
Allan Corduner and
Carla Mendonca.
The programme was inspired by the opening rolling caption about crime in Brighton at the beginning of the film ''
Brighton Rock'', which claimed that Brighton was now (in the 1950s) free of crime. Lynne Truss has written that: "This highly unrealistic reassurance prefacing ''Brighton Rock'' was the inspiration for the comedy series Inspector Steine...I wanted to write about a celebrity police inspector in the 1950s who innocently (and touchingly) believed precisely what he had been told at the movies"
Four series of six episodes each were broadcast from 2007 to 2011, followed by a one-off Christmas episode "The Christmas of Inspector Steine" which was broadcast as part of the ''
Afternoon Drama
''Drama'' (formerly ''Afternoon Theatre'', ''Afternoon Drama,'' ''Afternoon Play'') is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm. Generally each play is 45 minutes in duration and approximately 190 new plays are broadcast ea ...
'' strand on BBC Radio 4 on 23 December 2013.
Series 1
Series 2, ''The Casebook of Inspector Steine''
Series 3, ''The Adventures of Inspector Steine''
Series 4, ''The Return of Inspector Steine''
Christmas special, ''The Christmas of Inspector Steine''
Audiobooks
Series 1 was released by
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on 3 March 2008.
Series 2 was released by BBC Audiobooks on 12 February 2009.
Series 3 was released by BBC Audiobooks on 8 April 2010.
Series 4 was released digitally by
AudioGO on 15 July 2013.
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References
External links
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''The Casebook of Inspector Steine''
''The Adventures of Inspector Steine''
''The Return of Inspector Steine''
''The Christmas of Inspector Steine''
Article on ''Inspector Steine'' on Lynne Truss' website
''Inspector Steine'' photographs on Lynne Truss' website
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Website of Lynne Truss's agent David Higham
Website of actor Matt Green
Website of composer Anthony May
BBC Radio comedy programmes
BBC Radio 4 programmes