蜜芽传媒

With the storm clouds gathering and the water rising fast in Venice, the savage beating of renowned art historian, Dotoressa Brett Lynch with the message, 'Don't keep that appointment with the Director Semenzato of the Ducal Palace Museum', draws the Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti out of his warm and loving home. He finds himself in the yearly onslaught of the acqua alta, which is caused by high tides and the torrential winter rains that inundate the city, making the canals and walkways grim and impassable.

His investigation to uncover a motive for Brett's beating takes him to dark, wet corners of Venice and into a sinister web of art theft, fakery and base human desires.

Questions begin to arise concerning the lucrative trade in rare antiquities and those dealers and museum curators who provide the all-important provenance for examples of 3,000 year-old Chinese porcelain - which may or may not be fake.

For wealthy obsessives, with Mafia connections, the difference between a facsimile which is to all intents identical to the original and the real thing, can mean the difference between life and death to those who would procure them or indeed authenticate them.

CAST
COMMISSARIO GUIDO BRUNETTI - Julian Rhind-Tutt
PAOLA BRUNETTI - Jeany Spark
SERGEANT LORENZO VIANELLO - Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
BRETT LYNCH - Jane Slavin
CONTESSA FALIER - Siobhan Redmond
VICE-QUESTORE GIUSEPPE PATTA - David Horovitch
ELETTRA - Emily Bruni
SEMENZATO/GIORGIO - Richard Elfyn
SALVATORE - Elliot Barnes-Worrell

Dramatised by D J Britton from the novel by Donna Leon
Music by Julie Cooper
Produced and directed by Eoin O'Callaghan
A Big Fish Radio production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4