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Stone: The Complete Series 5-7
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Crime Dramas
- Narrated by: Craig Cheetham, Deborah McAndrew, Hugo Speer, full cast, Jill Halfpenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
Hugo Speer stars as John Stone in Series 5-7 of the gritty, fast-paced crime drama created by Danny Brocklehurst
Manchester detective DCI Stone and his team are faced with ten complex, morally challenging cases in this collection of hard-hitting radio dramas.
As Series 5 opens, Stone is still reeling from the mishandled shooting of Callum Gartside, a gunman who had murdered his own family. With his personal life in tatters, he must find the strength to hold it together and do his job. In Dirt by Martin Jameson, he investigates a body in a flooded gravel pit; in Blood Money by Richard Monks, he looks into the hit-and-run killing of a cyclist; and in A Cut Above by Marcia Layne, he looks into a suspected case of female genital mutilation. Progress, by Alex Ganley, finds him searching for the murderer of a garden centre owner; while Broken, by Vivienne Harvey, centres around a missing pregnant woman.
Series 6 includes Disclosure by Richard Monks, Wishing Well by Alex Ganley and Dan Allum, Casualties by Martin Jameson, and Damage by Vivienne Harvey. In these four episodes, Stone unearths dark secrets following an arson attack on a school; struggles to find the truth about a dead body on an abandoned travellers’ site; hits an unexpected obstacle in a murder investigation and goes undercover after a series of suspicious deaths among the homeless community.
In Silence, Series 7 follows one case across ten episodes, written by Martin Jameson, Richard Monks, Cath Staincliffe, Alex Ganley and Vivienne Harvey. After a fire at a hostel, a body is found – but who is he? Stone’s enquiries lead him to re-examine a murder investigation from twenty years before, and uncover a web of lies and deceit that make him confront his past mistakes and lead to personal trauma.
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- Craig
- 29-07-19
Couldn't stop listening!!
Simply can't wait until the next series is recorded. Brilliant. So many twists and turns at the end.
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- Philip R. Symons
- 10-03-21
Addictive!
Series 5 and 6 are made up of a total of nine episodes; each episode being a separate story in its own right. (Very much like the first four series, too, if memory serves.)
Some of these are stronger than others. But on the whole they're all excellent.
Series 7 (which was my introduction to "Stone" when it was broadcast a few years ago on Radio 4) takes a new direction by being a ten-parter. It does drag only slightly, and there's a little bit of padding here and there, but otherwise it's still a great story and it moves at a good pace. It feels slightly more realistic to go into a bit extra detail, and it includes more characters (especially police officers).
One problem is the revisionism! Given that got her intro by being on the other side of her mum's fanny in the first series - her growth and development skyrockets! In Series 6 she's having bedtime stories read to her, and in Series 7 she's a teenager. So it really sends the timeline out. It's hard to get a bearing on when John Stone became a DCI!
Otherwise, the three main characters' chemistry is not forced and Stone still deals in the "morally complex" stories that it's famous for.
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- Anon
- 29-07-23
Simply outstanding
Could not stop listening. My heart was in my mouth a few times and i stopped anything i was doing just to focus on the moment in the story. Captivating.
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- James
- 14-07-19
So freaking good- 5 star
One of the best dramas I have listen too in a good while. Well voice acted and a very good storyline.
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- gwendalot
- 23-06-21
Excellent crime stories
Good believable stories,great cast . Variety of stories really good. Great value I loved every minute
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- Kayla Smith
- 19-03-22
Great
I really enjoyed both books from Stone.
Easy to listen too, different stories throughout and a cast who aren't dull or irritating.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-01-22
Should be televised
Absolutely brilliant from series 1 to the end
I preferred the 45 min one off stories in the earlier series but just my personal opinion
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- Fantastic
- 06-07-21
Well worth it
Funny, suspenseful, great stories well put together with great acting. It’s better than watching the TV but they could easily translate to the screen. Mike Tanner character is brilliant
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- Fittpar
- 01-06-20
John Stone
I listened to series 1 to 4 and now 5 to 7. There are a number of different stories in both these series and I found them all a great listen particularly the last one. Actors were all first class. I hope there will be more to follow.
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- Karen
- 01-03-21
Stand-alone but......
Whilst every episode is standalone, make sure you listen to series 1-4 first as part of the joy of these crime dramas, is seeing Stone and his colleagues grow and develop, as they go from case to case. Great crime drama / radio performance at its best.
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