Part of Series
BBC Radio 4 full-cast audio dramatization first broadcast in November 1999. Author's own description: "A second hour-long adaptation of the other half of Clean Break (the novel). At first, Kate thinks she’s investigating a simple case of industrial sabotage. But nothing here is quite what it seems… Featuring Jane Hazelgrove as Kate and Kathryn Hunt reprising her roles as Shelley AND Alexis, thanks to the wonders of radio. Both Brannigans were directed by Melanie Harris." For the first half, see the radio play Clean Break. Kate Brannigan .... Jane Hazelgrove Richard Barclay/Lad .... Matthew Dunster Shelley/Sandra Bates ... Kathryn Hunt Trevor/Dave ..... James Quinn Jackson/Reg/Simon/Gizmo .... Martin Reeve Gail/Doreen .... Laura Richmond Janice/Cleaner .... Caroline Sugden Producer: Melanie Harris
Author
Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.
