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Hidden Treasures Episodes

  1.

    Edgar Wallace - The Calendar

    Vintage horse racing drama about disqualification and revenge.

  2. GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday

    Can Gabriel Syme thwart the deadly plans of the Supreme Council of Anarchists?

  3. Patricia Highsmith - A Suspension of Mercy

    When a crime writer's wife goes missing, fantasy and reality are intertwined.

  4. Larry McCoubrey - The Leveret

    John Graham's return to his native County Down goes well, until a young hare appears.

  5. Peter Rankin - Tu-Whit, Tu-Whoo!

    Elderly Susan and Billy receive a shock when their older brother dies.

  6. John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen

    Two scientists discover a revolutionary way to dramatically slow ageing in humans.

  7. Christopher Hampton - The Philanthropist

    Guests at a university dinner party quarrel and flirt with each other.

  8. Daphne du Maurier - The House on the Strand

    A mind-altering drug transports Richard back hundreds of years and puts him in peril...

  9. L P Hartley - The Go-Between

    Leo remembers the hot summer of 1900 in Norfolk when he was asked to carry messages.

  10. Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini plots to become a duke. But what to do with his rivals?

  11. Daphne du Maurier - The Scapegoat

    A chance encounter leads an English tourist into assuming the identity of a stranger

  12. Alan Ayckbourn - Absurd Person Singular

    Three couples meet on three separate Christmas Eves in their respective kitchens.

  13. Patrick Hamilton - The Slaves of Solitude

    1943: Arriving Americans affect lonely wartime residents of an English boarding house.

  14. Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus

    The family gathers at the Randolph's home in 1938 to celebrate a golden wedding.

  15. Oscar Wilde - An Ideal Husband

    When a serious indiscretion occurs, Mrs Cheveley attempts to turn it to her advantage.

  16. JM Barrie - What Every Woman Knows

    "Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself".

  17. Kingsley Amis - The Riverside Villas Murder

    An adolescent boy’s coming of age is blighted by a local murder.

  18. Edgar Wallace - On the Spot

    Will DC John Kelly be able to catch out the notorious Chicago gang leader, Tony Perelli?

  19. Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins - No Thoroughfare

    1835: Two babies at a Foundling Hospital get the same name with disastrous consequences

  20. Traitor

    A Hidden Treasure play from 1981, by Dennis Potter. With Denholm Elliott and Ian Ogilvy.

  21. The Dumb Waiter

    A sinister comedy by Harold Pinter. Two men wait, but for what and for whom?