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  1. Prisoners' Wives

    The stories of the wives, girlfriends and mothers whose loved ones are in prison.

    BBC One

  2. Shetland

    Uncovering the past. The dark side of one of the most beautiful places on earth.

    BBC One

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  3. The Fall

    The intertwined lives of a serial killer and the detective desperate to catch him.

    BBC Two

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  4. Murder in Mind

    Drama anthology series featuring self-contained stories of murder.

    BBC

  5. Maigret

    1960s crime drama based on the books by Georges Simenon, starring Rupert Davis.

    BBC

  6. Gangsters

    Hard-hitting crime drama set in the multi-racial criminal underworld of Birmingham.

    BBC

  7. Inspector Steine

    Comedy drama by Lynne Truss, set in 1950s Brighton

    BBC Radio 4

  8. New Tricks

    Drama about a police unit made up of retired detectives looking at unsolved crimes.

    BBC One

  9. Life on Mars

    Is he mad, in a coma… or has Detective Sam Tyler really travelled back in time?

    BBC One

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  10. Waking the Dead

    Hot-blooded reinvestigations of cold cases: new techniques, old crimes.

    BBC One

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  11. The Innocence Project

    Drama series following a group of law students as they investigate miscarriages of justice

    BBC One

  12. Five Days

    Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.

    BBC One

  13. Diagnosis Murder

    Lighthearted drama series about a crime-solving hospital doctor and his detective son.

    BBC One

  14. Light on the Road to Woodstock

    Historical crime reading. Brother Cadfael finds treachery and intrigue in England

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. Inspector Grant - The Daughter of Time

    Josephine Tey's classic novel. An injured detective delves into a historical mystery

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  16. Ellery Queen

    Classic detective series set in 1940s America

    BBC Two

  17. Charles Paris - Murder Unprompted

    Simon Brett's thespian sleuth returns in a dramatisation by Jeremy Front

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  18. Manchester Crime Wave

    Crime stories set in Manchester

    BBC Radio 4

  19. The Casebook of Inspector Steine

    Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton

    BBC Radio 4

  20. The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton

    Gabriel Syme, part of a secret Scotland Yard division, goes undercover to battle anarchy

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home

    Crime drama set in a small market town

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. Ruth Rendell Stories

    Series of short stories from crime writer Ruth Rendell.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. The Medical Detectives

    Crime series set in the 1800s featuring Dr John Snow, played by Bill Nighy

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. The Poisoner

    Drama based on the true story of the Black Widow poisoner in 1940s France.

    BBC Four

  25. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

    It's Melbourne, Australia, 1886, and a dead body is found in curious circumstances

    BBC Radio 7

  26. DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer

    Detective Inspector Cromwell and Mother Helen try to solve a murder mystery.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. The Mind of Mr JG Reeder

    Edgar Wallace's sleuth uses some novel methods to bring 1920s criminals to justice.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. PD James - The Skull Beneath the Skin

    PD James thriller with Greta Scacchi and John Moffatt

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. A Confidential Agent

    Nick McCarty's crime drama

    BBC Radio 7

  30. The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries

    Elizabethan playwright Kit Marlowe investigates a mystery in his own unique way

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. Sherlock Holmes: Study in Scarlet

    The detective meets Watson for the first time, in Arthur Conan Doyle's classic

    BBC Radio 7

  32. Dr Louisa Maxwell: Rush

    Dr Louisa Maxwell suspects foul play when a former patient apparently commits suicide

    BBC Radio 7

  33. The Lady Detectives

    Classic and period dramas featuring the finest female sleuths and investigators.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  34. Craddock and Co

    Lucy discovers that her uncle Charles has a secret profession as a private investigator.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  35. Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone

    19th century detective mystery concerning the disappearance of a seemingly cursed diamond

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  36. Raymond Chandler - Goldfish

    PI Carmady sets out on a misson to retrieve valuable Leander pearls stolen 15 years before

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37. So Much Blood

    Francis Matthews stars as the amateur sleuth, investigating a murder in Edinburgh

    BBC Radio 7

  38. The Body on the Beach

    Simon Brett's thriller read by Joanna Tope

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam

    Martin's ex-lover has been murdered. Why is he a prime suspect?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40. The Toff on the Farm

    Rural intrigue stalks amateur sleuth, the Honourable Richard Rollison.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. Lew Griffin - Eye of the Cricket

    Ray Shell reads James Sallis' crime novel, featuring detective Lew Griffin

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42. The Revengers' Comedies by Alan Ayckbourn

    Lia Williams, Jon Strickland and Barbara Flynn star in Alan Ayckbourn's dark comedy.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. In the Balance

    Black comedy about a BBC Crime Correspondent investigating murders during the World Cup

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. Lili Wen Fach

    Cyfres dditectif newydd gan John Ogwen a Maureen Rhys. A detective series.

    BBC Radio Cymru

  45. Who Killed Zebedee? by Wilkie Collins

    A dying policeman recalls how a gruesome murder many years before changed his life forever

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46. Dick Barton - Special Agent

    The ex-Commando Captain Richard Barton investigates crimes

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  47. The Real Dennis Truelove by Dave Sheasby

    Dennis Truelove escapes the drudgery of his job at the bank and heads off on an adventure.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  48. Poison Farm: A Murderer Unmasked After 60 Years

    The true story of a philandering farmer who was poisoned in 1938. Read by David Williams

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  49. Aberystwyth Mon Amour

    Noirish comic thriller set on the mean streets of Aberystwyth. By Malcolm Pryce

    BBC Radio Wales

  50. Hunter

    Two-part police thriller

    BBC HD

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