Portia Manning | Grace Gibson Shop https://gracegibsonradio.com Radio Serials Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:21:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Portia Manning Series (of Portia Faces Life fame) https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/portia-manning-series-of-portia-faces-life-fame/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:55:59 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=9243 Download file size is 2,756 megabytes[/box] Buy The Haverlock Affair, Partners In Jeopardy, The Silent Witness and The Seed Of Evil and pay just $150.00.  (normal price for these CDs is $185.00)]]> Download file size is 2,756 megabytes[/box] Buy The Haverlock Affair, Partners In Jeopardy, The Silent Witness and The Seed Of Evil and pay just $150.00.  (normal price for these CDs is $185.00)]]> The Seed of Evil https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-seed-of-evil/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:13:19 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=8015 (52 x 12 minute episodes) In every man’s heart there is the power for good and The Seed of Evil.]]> Portia Manning (of Portia Faces Life fame) discovers that a brilliant scientist, on the verge of a finding a cure for a dreaded disease, may, in the past, have murdered a woman.Portia endeavours to seek out proof of the scientist’s guilt or innocence. But standing in her way is the daughter of the missing woman, and a tycoon whose wife has contracted the dreaded disease and who is hoping for a miracle cure.
Before Portia can act on the result of her investigation, a tragedy occurs which resolves the scientist’s fate.

]]> The Haverlock Affair https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-haverlock-affair/ Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:59:51 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=7139 Download file size is 1.4 gig[/box] 128 episodes - 2 CDs Sonia Haverlock is accused of pushing a man to his death during a lonely drive. When arrested, Sonia doesn’t deny her guilt; nor does she care what happens to her.]]> When Portia Manning is assigned to the case she is intrigued by Sonia’s attitude and that of the man who pushed the case onto her – Gregory Doren wants to protect his social and political image. Other powerful figures become involved as well, which only serves to
harden Portia’s determination to investigate the case more deeply and to prove that Sonia is just a pawn.

]]> The Silent Witness https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-silent-witness/ Tue, 11 Aug 2015 06:45:49 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=6282 Download file size is 1.6 gig[/box] Portia Manning is approached by a distraught young woman who claims she is afraid she will commit murder.]]> Portia can coax few details from Liza Paradine, but advises her that she needs a psychiatrist. When Liza’s sister-in-law Josephine is murdered the police suspect Liza, and despite admitting to injuring Josephine, Liza claims she fled the scene in horror of her actions.
Portia decides to do some investigating of her own before considering whether or not she will defend Liza.

The Silent Witness ­ Cast List

]]> Partners In Jeopardy https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/partners-in-jeopardy/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 23:00:12 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=5937 Download file size is 1.2 gig[/box] Many lawyers eventually become interested in politics and Portia Manning (of the Portia Faces Life series) was no exception. 104 Episodes]]> When this brilliant and beautiful lawyer was approached by a number of leading and influential citizens to be their candidate at the next election,
she could not deny her interest. If, however, she had known who was really behind her nomination and what the outcome would be, Portia would have most emphatically refused.

Partners In Jeopardy – Cast List

Portia Manning                            Lyndall Barbour
Christopher                                   Nigel Lovell
Dickie                                            John Norman
Lucretia                                        Amber Mae Cecil
Piers Mariner                              Ric Hutton
Calvin Calbert                             Bob McDarra
Conrad Bird                                 Tom Farley
Charmaine                                   Georgie Sterling

Directed by Eden Rutter

]]> Clayton Place https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/clayton-place/ Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:20:46 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=4218 download"]Download file size is 1.5 gig[/box] Jason Clay is an opportunist who uses women as pawns to achieve his goals and satisfy his desires. 130 Episodes]]> He deserts his pregnant fiancé for the beautiful daughter of a man whose political connections could be useful. As time goes on he fathers children to a number of women, one of whom is his secretary, Regina. Though clever conspiring, Jason’s eldest son Matthew finds himself in bed with Regina and they are hastily married before a child is born. However, Regina finds living in the Clay mansion with Jason and Matthew more than she can bear. Meanwhile Jason fights to control his business and the woman and children he has spurned. But vengeance awaits him.

]]> Violets Are Blue https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/violets-are-blue/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 06:34:54 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=3802 Download file size is 1.5 gig[/box] (130 episodes x 12 mins on 2 CD’s – around 26 hours of listening) An army officer kills the man who violated his wife. It appears an open and shut case until the undercurrents are investigated and a vicious story unfolds 130 episodes, around 26 hours of listening]]> Violets Are Blue provides a vivid insight into the intrigue and drama in which Richard Blake is involved before, during and after the trial of Stephen Aldrich. There is no doubt who killed Fred Royle, but did he deserve to die and was Aldrich justified in taking the law into his own hands? Besides, Betsy Aldrich was no angel: she knew how to look after herself and perhaps her accusation of rape was to save herself from the fury of her husband. This is the story of a violent crime which reaps retribution and horror on the innocent as well as the guilty.

]]> Address Unknown Vol 3 https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/address-unknown-vol-3/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:15:10 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=3976 When people disappear nobody knows just where they will turn up, and there is virtually no place on Earth which has not at some time or other been combed by the agents of the Missing Persons Bureau. 15 x 24 minute episodes, around 6 hours of listening]]> Narrator, Henry Simon, tells the stories of people whose records are kept in the (fictitious) Missing Persons Bureau in London. People who, in everyday life, encounter strange and unusual problems which then lead them to be reported
as ‘Address Unknown’. This series was dramatised for radio by (the author of The Castlereagh Line) Ross Napier. For the title of each episode please see the inside of this leaflet.

Playlist ]]> Thirty Days Hath September https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/thirty-days-hath-september/ Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:33:39 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=3290 Download file size is 1.3 gig[/box] A former model is charged with her much older husband’s murder. Her brilliant lawyer falls in love with her and further complicates the mystery. (104 x 15 mins: 20+ hours).]]> Cynthia Hall, 24, a former fashion model married millionaire George Stockton, 57, and found she was living in a gilded cage – spied upon by her jealous husband and the victim of poison pen letters. When George dies of poisoning Cynthia is arrested. Leading criminal lawyer Archer MacFarlane Bishop agrees to handle Cynthia’s defence and in doing so becomes besotted by her. At the expense of his personal life and the esteem of his friends, he pieces together a case for the defence.
When he discovers Cynthia has had an affair with her late husband’s nephew, Dick Marsden, he slants the defence to incriminate him. Cynthia is acquitted, but that is far from the end of the story.
Thirty Days Hath September features a guest appearance by Portia Manning (of Portia Faces Life fame) as Special Assisting Counsel.

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