Alec Coppel’s mystery thriller The Gazebo will be aired as part of Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend
Radio 4 Extra is to re-broadcast a play for a listener who missed the ending 45 years ago.
Sue Reilly was gripped by The Gazebo, a comic murder mystery by Alec Coppel, when she first heard it on the World Service in August 1978.
But she missed the closing minutes and never heard the denouement of the tale. When Radio 4 Extra invited listeners to suggest a programme they would like to hear again, Ms Reilly put pen to paper.
She wrote: “Years ago, when I used to listen to the radio under the blankets, there was a play on the World Service which I’m sure was called The Gazebo. It was a thriller and I believe that the body was buried under the gazebo.