Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd - 2000 BBC Audio Drama
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Peter Ackroyd 's acclaimed 1985 novel is dramatised in two parts by Nick Fisher. Nicholas Dyer, an 18th-century architect, builds churches to the glory of God, but underpins them with his secret obsession with the old religion. Hawksmoor, a detective in contemporary London, investigates murders that mirror the sacrifices from 300 years before.
With Phillip Jackson and Norman Rodway. 2x60 mins.
Part 1 : London, 1711: An architect sets to work on some new churches, but few could imagine his dreadful purpose.
Part 2 : Eighteenth-century architect Nicholas Dyer is under suspicion, and a series of modern murders baffle Hawksmoor