Dick Francis

Fast-paced radio dramatisations of six of Dick Francis's classic racing thrillers, plus bonus documentary....

Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office....

Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million pounds without making enemies....

John Kendall knows how to survive. He's written six handbooks on the subject. Now he wants to become a novelist, preferably without starving to death....

Sid Halley had one good hand and another made of metal....

Valentine, a blind, confused old man on his deathbed, seeking his peace with God, makes his last confession to a visiting friend, Thomas Lyon, mistaking him for a priest....

Amazing what bodily injury could do for a man. A fall from a racehorse had left brilliant jockey Sid Halley dangerously depressed, with a wrecked hand and the need for a new career....

A British jockey, riding in Norway, has disappeared, and with him has gone a day's takings from the turnstiles of Oslo racecourse....

To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer....

Gene Hawkins, investigator by trade, was expert at arranging events so that they appeared accidental to all involved....

When the horse that wins a race gallops in with frothing mouth and popping eyes, what is more natural than to suspect that someone¿s slipped a booster into his oats....

It’s the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy and smash him, then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins....

When Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey, finds out that his chief patron, Princess Casilia, is facing an increasingly serious threat....

It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles Sid Halley....

When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall in a steeplechase at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape....

Robert Finn, steeplechase jockey, finds himself the focus of a malicious campaign....

When he wakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound....

Free choice? There's no such thing, according to Lee Morris....

Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure things....

A mysterious entity, "Alyosha", is threatening a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games; the candidate may be vulnerable to scandal which could set off diplomatic conflicts....