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3. What Did It Matter?

California 1939: can private detective Philip Marlowe survive trying to protect Sternwood's reckless daughters? Stars Ed Bishop.

California 1939: can private detective Philip Marlowe survive trying to protect Sternwood's reckless daughters?

'What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.'

Conclusion of Raymond Chandler's hardboiled crime-fiction classic.

Starring Ed Bishop.

Dramatised by Bill Morrison.

Re-versioned from the 90 minute drama first heard in 1977.

Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
General Sternwood .... Robert Beatty
Carmen Sternwood .... Liza Ross
Vivian Regan .... Diana Olsson
Agnes .... Nicolette McKenzie
Harry Jones .... Don Fellows
Canino .... Peter Marinker
Mona .... Irene Sutcliffe
Capt Cronjager .... Henry Knowles
Art Huck .... Malcolm Gerard

Musical research Adrian Williams.

Director: John Tydeman

First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in January 1988.

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