Two award-winning Dr David Audley spy novels dramatized with a full-cast


Anthony Price wrote espionage thrillers alongside being a journalist at the Westminster Press and Oxford Times. Both of the classic spy novels featured in this collection are award-winning: The Labyrinth Makers won the Silver Dagger Award and Other Paths to Glory won the Gold Dagger Award.

The Labyrinth Makers – Why are the KGB so interested in old, wrecked Dakotas, and what has the Schliemann Treasure to do with a ruined flak tower in Berlin? Anthony Price's tale of treasure, treachery and unexpected romance stars John Stride as Dr David Audley and Paula Wilcox as Faith. Dramatised by Nick McCarty and directed by Hamish Wilson.

Dr David Audley: John Stride

Faith: Paula Wilcox
Tierney: Alan Manson
Sir Frederick: Peter D'Souza
Morrison: Neil Packham
Mr Jones: Ian Sexon
Mrs Harlin: Pat Williams
Jenkins: Mark Coleman
Roskill: Michael MacKenzie
Butler: Raymond Ross
Panin: Laurance Rudic
Maclean: Sandy Neilson

Other Paths to Glory – Why is it that anyone who has any kind of connection with one particular attack on the Somme front in 1916 - the fatal assault upon Bouillet Wood and the so-called Prussian Redoubt - is now being murdered? Adapted by Alison Plowden, directed by Harry Catlin.

Dr Audley: Tony Britton
Paul Mitchell: Martin Jarvis
Col Butler: Ronald Baddiley
Mrs Mitchell: Lorna Rosslyn
Constable Bell/Marcel Jarras: David Graham
Mr Hutchinson/Capt Faversham: Douglas Blackwell
Nicole MacMahon: Silvie Dattas
Gatekeeper/Sorel: Steve Hodson
Edouard Olivier: Andre Maranne