''Inspector Steine'' is a radio comedy drama series written by

Lynne Truss Lynne Truss (born 31 May 1955) is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist. She is arguably best known for her championing of correctness and aesthetics in the English language, which is the subject of her ...

and produced by Sweet Talk for

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. The producer is Karen Rose and music is by Anthony May. Set in a police station in Brighton in the 1950s, it tells the story of Inspector Steine (

Michael Fenton Stevens Michael Fenton Stevens (born 12 February 1958) is an English actor and comedian. He is best known for being a founder member of The Hee Bee Gee Bees and the voice behind the ''Spitting Image'' 1986 number 1 hit "The Chicken Song". He also starred ...

) and his colleagues Sergeant Brunswick (

John Ramm John Ramm is an English comedian and actor. He plays Raymond Box in the National Theatre of Brent, and has also appeared on film and television in ''Robin Hood'' (" Will You Tolerate This?"), ''The Palace'', ''Foyle's War'' ("All Clear") and as ...

) and Constable Twitten ( Matt Green), plus the station charlady Mrs Groynes (

Jan Ravens Janet "Jan" Ravens (born 14 May 1958) is an English actress and impressionist, known for her voice work on ''Spitting Image'' and '' Dead Ringers''. Early life Ravens grew up in Hoylake, then in Cheshire, on the west side of the Wirral with he ...

in Series 1 and

Samantha Spiro Samantha Spiro (born 20 June 1968) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for portraying Barbara Windsor in the stage play '' Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick'' and the television films ''Cor, Blimey!'' and ''Babs'', DI Vivien F ...

from Series 2 onwards). Guest stars have included Janet Ellis,

Mark Heap Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his roles in television comedies, including, '' Brass Eye'', '' Big Train'', ''Spaced'', '' Jam'', ''Green Wing'', ''Friday Night Dinner'', '' Upstart Crow'' and '' ...

Allan Corduner Allan Corduner (; born 2 April 1950) is a British actor. Born in Stockholm to a German mother and a Russo-Finnish father, Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in London. After earning a BA (Hons) in English and Drama at Bristol Univer ...

and

Carla Mendonca Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ''ceorl'' in Old English, which means "free man". Notable people with the name include: * Carla, French singer and former member of the children's music group Kids United * Carla Abe ...

. The programme was inspired by the opening rolling caption about crime in Brighton at the beginning of the film '' Brighton Rock'', which claimed that Brighton was now (in the 1950s) free of crime. Lynne Truss has written that: "This highly unrealistic reassurance prefacing ''Brighton Rock'' was the inspiration for the comedy series Inspector Steine...I wanted to write about a celebrity police inspector in the 1950s who innocently (and touchingly) believed precisely what he had been told at the movies" Four series of six episodes each were broadcast from 2007 to 2011, followed by a one-off Christmas episode "The Christmas of Inspector Steine" which was broadcast as part of the ''

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'' strand on BBC Radio 4 on 23 December 2013.

Series 1

Series 2, ''The Casebook of Inspector Steine''

Series 3, ''The Adventures of Inspector Steine''

Series 4, ''The Return of Inspector Steine''

Christmas special, ''The Christmas of Inspector Steine''

Audiobooks

Series 1 was released by

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on 3 March 2008. Series 2 was released by BBC Audiobooks on 12 February 2009. Series 3 was released by BBC Audiobooks on 8 April 2010. Series 4 was released digitally by

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on 15 July 2013. rom Amazon UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DYLSF18/ref>

References

External links

*
''The Casebook of Inspector Steine''

''The Adventures of Inspector Steine''

''The Return of Inspector Steine''

''The Christmas of Inspector Steine''

Article on ''Inspector Steine'' on Lynne Truss' website

''Inspector Steine'' photographs on Lynne Truss' website
* {{bbc.co.uk, id=radio4/inspectorsteine/, title=''Inspector Steine'' (archived)
Website of Lynne Truss's agent David Higham

Website of actor Matt Green

Website of composer Anthony May
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