Acqua Alta: Episode 2
As Commissario Brunetti manages Vict-Questore Patta's concern for the Mayor, Elettra delves into data and finds some surprising connections to Santorelli.
Brett Lynch is in danger again, as an increasingly unhinged collector craves her reassurance. The question is how long can she play out an elaborate game of cat and mouse with her kidnapper before Brunetti and his colourful side-kick Vianello can locate her and drag her through the flood waters of the acqua alta to a place of safety.
Though art theft and a vastly wealthy criminal class seem endemic in a rain-lashed Venice where the rising tides match the ooze of deadly corruption, this is mercifully contrasted by what Brunetti perceives as moments of extreme beauty, kindness and social awareness 鈥� as if an essential goodness in the people will in the end hold the toxic waters at bay 鈥� enduring the worst, in the knowledge that the water will recede and that common decency and equilibrium will be restored.
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
CARMELLO LA CAPRA/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
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- Sun 3 Aug 2025 15:00蜜芽传媒 Radio 4
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