Saturday Drama Before The Fact By Frances Iles

Emilia Fox, Ben Caplan and Patricia Hodge star in a dramatisation of the novel that Alfred Hitchcock based his film, 'Suspicion' on. Set in the early 1930s, Emilia Fox plays the part of Lina - a girl in her late twenties, from a wealthy family. In danger of becoming a spinster, life changes for the better when Lina meets Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming stranger who proposes marriage. Johnnie saves Lina from a boring life with her parents and whisks her off on an extravagant honeymoon. But on their return Lina begins to discover that Johnnie is not all he seems. His gambling threatens to ruin them but is her growing suspicion that he is also a murderer founded on reality or her imagination? Dramatised for radio by Ronald Frame Producer/Director: David Ian Neville.  Cast: Lina - Emilia Fox Johnnie - Ben Caplan Miss Sedbusk - Patricia Hodge Capt Melbeck - Sam Dale Thwaite - David Timson Ethel - Hannah Wood Dr Fielding - Rick Warden

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.