A tropical island paradise, a tourist's dream. White sand, blue sea, palm trees, music, rum and fun. Or is it a murky, murderously corrupt gangland?The new republic of Amelia in the southern Caribbean has just been born, but it already has problems. On the face of it everything is just fine, but underneath there are threats and pressures, as well as a rapidly climbing murder rate. The new Prime Minister, Saul Rickard, seeks help from the former colonial power - Britain - to enable ...

What is Crossed Lines?In a sentence, it is a high-speed, complex, geographically wide-ranging, quite technical, sometimes brutal, sometimes sexy, sometimes funny, often violent, corruption driven, crime soaked, duplicitous, deceptive, confusing, thrilling, passionately human and rather strange love story.In Part One: No Choice, we meet the players. First, Julia Kelso, by day a respected and respectable senior police officer, by night a solo...

In the early 1980s the world was on the brink of a nuclear Armageddon. Trust between the USA and the Soviet Union was at an all-time low, suspicion and fear ruled as each side believed that the other was planning an imminent attack. Against this background Viktor Gumnov, a KGB officer, is sent with his family on a secret mission to Washington charged with the task of finding a way in which the Soviet Union could win such a war.While there Viktor comes to the conclusion that if the ...

Three fantastic series of the satirical radio panel game from 2014In these 26 episodes, we turn the clock back to 2014 - the year when Scotland said 'no' to independence, Ukrainians ousted their pro-Russia president in the Maidan Revolution, and the European Space Agency's Philae probe made its historic first landing on a comet.Sandi Toksvig is in the chair for every show bar one, in which Susan Calman steps in as temporary host. Subjects on the table for t...