Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection cover art

Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Raymond Chandler
Narrated by: Toby Stephens
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Only £0.99 a month for the first 3 months. Pay £0.99 for the first 3 months, and £8.99/month thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Start my membership

About this listen

The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries.

Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world weary, hard boiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking crime novels featuring his iconic hero.

The Big Sleep: Marlowe is consulted by a wealthy family man with two big problems: his children.

Farewell My Lovely: Marlowe's search for an ex-con's ex-girlfriend leads him into danger.

The High Window: when a rare gold coin is stolen from her collection, Mrs Murdoch hires Philip Marlowe to find it.

The Lady in the Lake: businessman Derace Kingsley hires Marlowe to find his estranged wife, Crystal.

The Little Sister: commissioned to find Orfamay Quest's missing brother, Marlowe is drawn into the glamorous film world of Hollywood.

The Long Goodbye: Marlowe befriends a drunk named Terry Lennox but comes to regret doing him a favour.

Playback: hired to follow the mysterious Betty Mayfield, Marlowe soon finds that he is being tailed, too.

Poodle Springs: newly married Marlowe puts his bride aside to look for a gambler on the run.

Starring Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe, these stylish, suspenseful dramatisations - full of witty, ironic dialogue and colourful characters - bring the beautiful, corrupt world of California in the '40s and '50s to luminous life.

Duration: 11 hours approx.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2016 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2016 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Anthologies & Short Stories Crime Fiction Crime Thrillers Entertainment & Performing Arts Mystery Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Exciting Witty British Mysteries Radio Classics

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas cover art
Raymond Chandler cover art
Dr Gideon Fell: The Complete BBC Radio Drama Collection cover art
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 1 cover art
Charles Paris: A BBC Radio Collection cover art
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Season 1; 44-Episode Collection cover art
The Plays of J. B. Priestley cover art
Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (Dramatised) cover art
Robert Louis Stevenson: A BBC Radio Drama Collection cover art
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection cover art
Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness & More cover art
Raymond Chandler: Poodle Springs (Dramatised) cover art
The Martin Beck Stories cover art
P. D. James BBC Radio Drama Collection cover art
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe cover art
R.D. Wingfield: A Touch of Frost and Other Thrillers cover art
All stars
Most relevant
if you like detective fiction, there is no better than Raymond Chandler and this collection is a wonderful package

Perfectly delivered, great tales, loved it.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

An outstanding radio adaptation. I've listened to this many times. All of the actors are very good but the lead really knocks it out of the park here.

It doesn't get much better than this!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Marlow is the coolest character in fiction, the language is 30s LA street slang, evocative, funny and straight to the point. The storey lines are so dark, noir dosent even begin to describe it.

playing with too few dots on her dice! superb.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Splendid. Can listen to it over and over. Great cast, excellent voices. Great to listen to wgen gardening.

Marlow

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Since watching The Big Sleep many many years ago I have always loved the Noir genre of both movies and books. Raymond Chandler is the master of that genre and this collection presents his works exactly in the manner that Chandler intended. Toby Stephens is the perfect Philip Marlowe and delivers the hard-boiled dialogue perfectly and has the listener gripped and, at times, amused at his rhetoric and his ripostes, and the perfect New York accent tops it off perfectly.

The supporting cast is well picked and completes the immersion leaving the listener with a satisfied listening experience that makes them want more of the same. I would recommend that you give your ears a treat by giving this a listen and take some pleasure in immersing yourself in the Noir world of the 1930's and 1940's.

If you loved the film The Big Sleep then you will love this collection of Raymond Chandler classics, it will be the best 8 hours that you will ever spend in your life.

A credit to the Noir genre

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews