Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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| 01 | The Talented Mr Ripley | 20090228 | 20140224 (BBC7) 20140225 (BBC7) 20110902 (R4) | by Patricia Highsmith. Ian Hart stars as charming, cultured Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith's mischievous anti-hero with a taste for the finer things in life. In the first of five Ripley novels Tom is barely one step ahead of his creditors when a stranger offers him a free trip to Europe and a fresh start. Tom wants money and success and he is willing to kill for it. Dickie Greenleaf...Stephen Hogan Marge Sherwood...Barbara Barnes Mr Greenleaf...Malcolm Tierney Mrs Greenleaf...Janice Acquah Roverini...Stephen Critchlow Buffi...Matt Addis Dramatist Stephen Wyatt Director Claire Grove Tom Ripley detests murder unless it is absolutely necessary. He prefers someone else to do the dirty work. But if he's called on to act there is no one more cool, calculating and clever. Radio 4 brings all Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels together in a thrilling series on five successive Saturdays. Written over 35 years Patricia Highsmith kept being drawn back to her hedonistic, charming, cultured and mischievous anti-hero who has a taste for the finer things in life. Always on the edge of being discovered, Ripley appeals to the amoral instinct in all of us. These are unique and complex crime novels with a brilliantly twisted centre. Ian Hart stars as Tom Ripley. A BAFTA Award winning actor, Ian Hart has starred in projects as varied as Land and Freedom, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Cock and Bull Story, Blind Flight and Harry Potter. Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing, bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.' THE NEW YORKER. A stranger offers Patricia Highsmith's mischievous anti-hero a free trip to Europe. |
| 02 | Ripley Under Ground | 20090307 | 20140225 (BBC7) 20140226 (BBC7) 20110909 (R4) | By Patricia Highsmith . Ian Hart stars as charming, cultured Tom Ripley, in the second of Patricia Highsmith's classic thrillers. With a dead man's money safely stowed in the bank Tom is living in luxury in a chateau in France with his beautiful French wife. But the clever art forgery which funds Tom's expensive tastes is about to be uncovered. Heloise...Helen Longworth Bernard Tufts...Benedict Sandiford Jeff Constant...Stephen Hogan Madame Annette...Caroline Guthrie Murchison...Malcolm Tierney Webster...Stephen Critchlow Dramatist Alan McDonald Director Claire Grove. Tom is living in luxury in a chateau in France, but his forgery is about to be uncovered. |
| 03 | Ripley's Game | 20090314 | 20140226 (BBC7) 20140227 (BBC7) 20110916 (R4) | by Patricia Highsmith. Ian Hart stars as charming, cultured Tom Ripley, in Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller. Tom sets up a man he dislikes to carry out two perfect murders but an attack of conscience propels him on to a train to take on the Mafia. Heloise...Helen Longworth Madame Annette...Caroline Guthrie Reeves Minot...Paul Rider Jonathan Trevanny...Tom Brooke Simone Trevanny...Janice Acquah Gauthier...Philip Fox Marcangelo...Matt Addis Lippo...Sam Dale Dramatist Alan McDonald Director Steven Canny Producer Claire Grove. Tom sets up a man he dislikes to carry out two murders, but has an attack of conscience. |
| 04 | The Boy Who Followed Ripley | 20090123 | 20140227 (BBC7) 20140228 (BBC7) 20090321 (R4) 20110923 (R4) | by Patricia Highsmith. Ian Hart stars as charming, cultured Tom Ripley, in Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller. A rich young man arrives at Belle Ombre. He and Tom end up having to fight for their lives in sexually-ambiguous, underworld Berlin. Frank Pierson...Nicholas Hoult Heloise...Helen Longworth Lily Pierson...Janice Acquah Reeves Minot...Paul Rider Eric Lanz...Jonathan Tafler Ralph Thurlow...Philip Fox Max...Matt Addis Dramatist Stephen Wyatt Director Steven Canny and Claire Grove. A young man's arrival at Belle Ombre sparks a battle for life in underworld Berlin. |
| 05 | Ripley Under Water | 20090328 | 20140228 (BBC7) 20140301 (BBC7) 20110930 (R4) | by Patricia Highsmith. Ian Hart stars as charming, cultured Tom Ripley, in Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller. Strange new neighbours show an overdeveloped interest in Ripley's past. Tom discovers they are not who they say they are but will his shady dealings be exposed after all? Heloise...Helen Longworth Madame Annette...Caroline Guthrie David Pritchard...William Hope Janice Pritchard...Janice Acquah Jeff Constant...Stephen Hogan Cynthia Gradnor...Lizzy Watts Policeman...Matt Addis Dramatist Stephen Wyatt Director Steven Canny Producer Claire Grove. Ripley discovers his nosey neighbours aren't who they say. Will his dealings be exposed? |