Gregory Keen Adventures | Grace Gibson Shop https://gracegibsonradio.com Radio Serials Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:00:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Adventures of Major Gregory Keen https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-adventures-of-major-gregory-keen/ Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:44:06 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=10082 Download file size is 6.4 gig[/box] The entire Gregory Keen series (Dossier on Dumetrius, Deadly Nightshade, 26 Hours, Two Roads To Samarra, and The Smell of Terror). $180 (normally $249.75)]]> Download file size is 6.4 gig[/box] The entire Gregory Keen series (Dossier on Dumetrius, Deadly Nightshade, 26 Hours, Two Roads To Samarra, and The Smell of Terror). $180 (normally $249.75)]]> The Smell Of Terror https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-smell-of-terror/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 06:34:15 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=3804 Download file size is 1.2 gig[/box] (104 episodes x 12 mins – around 20 hours of listening) Retired and having trouble adjusting to every-day life, Gregory Keen is quietly fishing when he receives a letter from a friend in the West Indies, inviting him to holiday there for as long as he wishes. 104 episodes, around 20 hours of listening]]> The island republic is ruled by a dictator, who receives word that an ex-armed forces type is heading to the island to help train revolutionaries.  When Keen’s host Denise refuses to sell her estate to the State, she receives threatening phone calls. She finds her staff will no longer come to work. Her chauffeur is beaten. Then Keen is framed and arrested.  The intrigue that follows finds Keen and Tommy Coutts return to their old ways as they deal with kidnappings, beatings and corruption.  This is the final of the Major Gregory Keen adventures. Previous titles in the series are Dossier on Dumetrius, Deadly Nightshade, Twenty Six Hours and Two Roads To Samarra.

]]> Two Roads To Samarra https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/two-roads-to-samarra/ Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:33:18 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=3291 (104 x 12 mins: 20+ hours) ]]> ‘Come for the long weekend and bring your arms. We might be fortunate enough to kill a beast!’ That was a perfectly normal social invitation issued to friends by wealthy landholders in Scotland.

Suppose you received one … and accepted. Would you be embarrassed to find that the ‘beast’ your host hoped to kill … was you? Major Gregory Keen was!

Set in the highlands of Scotland, Keen’s prime task is to protect the daughter of a wealthy oil magnate and bring her safely to Scotland from her European hideout. SMERSH, a Soviet controlled group of assassins, is after Jasmine so that Bagradjan’s empire can be controlled.

But the plot is not that simple as Keen finally discovers after it moves to Europe, London and, finally, the high road to Kilcraigie Castle.

This is the fourth story based around the adventures of Major Gregory Keen. Earlier titles include Dossier on Dumetrius, Deadly Nightshade and Twenty Six Hours.

]]> Twenty Six Hours https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/twenty-six-hours/ Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:06:44 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=3025 Download file size is 1.4 gig[/box] 104 x 12 mins – 20+ hours The third of five in the Gregory Keen mysteries]]> Major Gregory Keen, together with Sergeant Coutts travels to Berlin to find and destroy some diaries written by an indiscreet American General and which are so inflammatory that, if they were to fall into the wrong hands, could cause another World War. The diaries fall into the hands of ex-German General, Manfred Von Remer, who decides to sell them to the highest bidder…the United States, Russia or Great Britain.  Von Remer offers them first to the Americans, but will deal only through British Intelligence.And so…Major Keen of M.I.5 is chosen.  He is to make his first contact through a girl in a Berlin café and it soon becomes obvious to Keen that more than one group is after the diaries.

 

]]> Deadly Nightshade https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/deadly-nightshade/ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:18:29 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/shop/?post_type=product&p=2689 Download file size is 1.3 gig[/box] (104 x 12 minute episodes: 20 + hours) Another adventure of Major Gregory Keen of MI5.]]> It is a fast-moving, exciting, suspenseful radio drama in which Gregory Keen is sent to Australia to search for a missing scientist. As the plot unfolds, the characters emerge – some sinister, some loveable, some terrifying – a gallery of real, vivid and believable people drawn against the factual background of Sydney.
Each episode is introduced by Gregory Keen – brilliantly played by Bruce Stewart. No narrator is used, so that the program is alive the instant each chapter takes to the air. Touches of actuality create an atmosphere of realism throughout. From the opening scenes, as the web is spun to enmesh the characters one after another to the climax – the suspense mounts, the pace quickens.

Deadly Nightshade Cast List

Gregory Keen

Tom Coutts

Evelyn Channell

Felix Hubermann

Bruce Stewart

Ivan Vander

Margo Lee

Guy Doleman

Written by Lindsay Hardy
Directed by Lawrence H. Cecil

 

 

]]> Dossier on Dumetrius https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/dossier-on-dumetrius/ Thu, 30 May 2013 12:25:17 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/shop/?post_type=product&p=2686 Download file size is 1.3 gig[/box] (104 x 12 minute episodes: 20 + hours) ... the story of a document now gathering dust in a silent room. Dossier on Dumetrius was one of Grace Gibson’s best-loved and most successful ‘spy’ serials.]]> It introduced Major Gregory Keen of MI5 who was the forerunner to James Bond. The story is set in Post War London and tells of the search for missing Nazi loot which was brought into England by a mysterious, vicious criminal Dumetrius, his gorgeous girlfriend Hedy Bergner and Yottie Bleem, a Butcher who thinks murder is fun. Keen, of course, falls in love with Hedy and only learns her true feelings when the story comes to its highly exciting climax.

An interesting and distinctive feature of this programme is the theme melody. Each episode opens with a few bars of whistling, the tune of which is then taken up by a full concert orchestra. The whistling of this theme serves throughout the story to identify Dumetrius and it is finally the cause of his dramatic capture.

Dossier On Dumetrius Cast List

Gregory Keen

Tommy Coutts

Dumetrius

Hedy Bergner

Peter Ridgeway

Hank Godowski

Dora

Bruce Stewart

Frank Waters

Guy Doleman

Dinah Shearing

Reg Goldsworthy

Alan White

Ruth Cracknell

Written by Lindsay Hardy

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