Name: Jumping Jenny By Anthony Berkeley. BBC RADIO DRAMA
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Duration: 1 h 33 min 4 s
Description: Anthony Berkeley was a journalist, novelist, and founding member of the Detection Club - whose members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers - and was one of crime fiction's greatest innovato

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Anthony Berkeley was a journalist, novelist, and founding member of the Detection Club - whose members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers - and was one of crime fiction's greatest innovators, developing the idea of the psychological crime novel in the 1920s and 30s. One of Berkeley’s recurring and most-beloved characters was Roger Sheringham, a novelist and amateur detective.

In Jumping Jenny, written in 1933, Roger attends a party with the questionable theme 'famous murderers and their victims', only to discover that one difficult guest has been deliberately killed on one of the party's props. When Roger suspects one of his close friends may be involved, he decides to meddle in the evidence - but is he putting his own life at risk with this mischievous intervention?

Jumping Jenny
Ronald Stratton - Trevor Martin
Roger Sheringham - Hugh Burden
Colin Nicolson - Simon Lack
Dr Philip Chalmers - Hamilton Dyce
Laura Chalmers - Judy Bailey
Ena Stratton - Joan Newell
David Stratton - John Scott
Osbert Williams - Philip Cunningham
Agatha Lefroy - Monica Kirton
Dr Frank Mitchell - David Bird
Margot - Sheila Manahan
Mrs Williams - Molly Rankin
Inspector Crane - Keith Williams
Coroner - Richard Williams
Novel by Anthony Berkeley
Adapted by H. Oldfield Box
Produced by David H. Godfrey
First broadcast on BBC Home Service, 14 November 1959
Please note: Due to the age of this recording, the sound quality is variable.