The Good Companions by Claire Grove and was re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7 from 25th to 27th May 2010. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 90-minute adaptation by John Retallack on 24 February 2018, directed by David Hunter and featuring Ralph Ineson as Jess Oakroyd, Fenella Woolgar as Miss Trant, Roy Hudd as Jimmy Nunn, Oliver Gomm as Inigo Jollifant and Isabella Inchbald as Susie Dean. The Good Companions The Good Companions is a novel by the English author J. B. Priestley. Written in 1929 (in Deal, Kent), it focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party in England between World War
Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade role charity plays between them. A key point of the plot is what motivates people to embark on great acts of good, or "crusades". "The Inspector is a fine comic character" SUNDAY TIMES "One of the more convincing characters in modern contemporary mystery fiction" NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Audiofilemagazine.com has a positive review of the BBC Audiobooks America 2002 edition of "Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade", read by Sam Dastor, on its website. The novel is set in Mumbai, India, in the 1960s. The plot concerns the murder of Frank Masters who was the victim of arsenic poisoning. "Inspector Ghote's