Marcel Duchamp is considered one of the great artists of the 20th century, but was his greatest achievement - Fountain - a urinal bearing the signature R. Mutt, the work of someone else?The original Fountain has long been lost, and for many dec

Missing Priest

Sep 16th, 2017 27m 45s

One afternoon in July 1953 Father Henryk Borynski, a Polish priest living in Bradford, took a telephone call. His housekeeper heard him say "OK, I'll go". He put on his hat, and his coat and left. He was never seen again. Many Poles fled to the

Treasure in the Piano

Sep 9th, 2017 27m 45s

A piano tuner discovers a hoard of gold coins carefully concealed inside a piano. Whoever hid it there is a mystery. Radio 4's very own Inspector Clouseau Steve Punt is on hand to piece together the clues. His detective trail leads him on a jou

Lost Nukes

Sep 2nd, 2017 27m 48s

Steve Punt returns as Radio 4's very own private detective.In this tenth anniversary edition, Steve's called in to investigate the unlikely disappearance of American and Russian nuclear weapons - with assistance from best-selling thriller write

There's A Kind of Hum

Aug 13th, 2016 27m 48s

What is it?The sounds generated by mating fish? The US government? Or even the evolution of humans to hear electromagnetic waves... Steve Punt, BBC Radio 4's Mulder and Scully combined, turns his analytical ears to The Hum - heard by people, al

The Reclusive Skeleton of Fingringhoe

Aug 9th, 2016 27m 35s

Steve Punt continues his investigations as Radio 4's very own private detective.In 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, the reclusive actress Ada Constance Kent disappeared from the village of Fingringhoe in rural Essex. Despite her

The Suspicious Death of Emile Zola

Jul 30th, 2016 27m 11s

Steve Punt returns as Radio 4's very own private detective.Punt travels to Paris to investigate the suspicious death of celebrated writer Émile Zola. Zola died in 1902 from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a blocked chimney. At the time, the

The Great Mull Air Mystery

Aug 22nd, 2015 27m 53s

On Christmas Eve 1975, former Spitfire pilot Peter Gibbs took off from the unlit airfield on the Isle of Mull and never returned. It was a moonless night and having just finished dinner with his girlfriend at the Glenforsa Hotel, it seemed a b

The Case of the Missing Cezanne

Aug 15th, 2015 27m 56s

Steve Punt turns Private Investigator and tries to crack the case of the missing Cézanne masterpiece 'Auvers sur Oise'. The painting was stolen from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford whilst the city celebrated the millennium, and has not been seen

The murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor

Aug 8th, 2015 27m 56s

Steve Punt returns with a brand new series of investigations - starting with the unsolved murder of major Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor in 1922.Taylor was one of Tinseltown's biggest names - until he was shot dead in his bungalow in

Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?

Aug 2nd, 2014 27m 55s

Steve Punt turns detective to investigate a mystery from the Midlands.In 1943, in a small wood in the village of Hagley, the body a woman was found inside a Wych elm tree. She had been put in feet first, alive or just recently dead. The police

The Case of the MP Who Vanished

Jul 26th, 2014 27m 57s

Steve Punt turns private investigator and examines the curious case of the socialist MP Victor Grayson who vanished into thin air!Firebrand politician, champion of the mill workers, scion of the establishment, fancy dresser, hard drinker, man a

The Baker Street Bank Robbery

Jul 19th, 2014 27m 42s

Steve Punt turns gumshoe, investigating curious rumours surrounding the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971.Quite possibly the most audacious heist in British history, the robbers tunnelled into the bank's vault from the basement of a shop two do

The Mysterious Death of Flying Millionaire Alfred Loewenstein

Jul 14th, 2014 27m 49s

Steve Punt returns as Radio 4's very own gumshoe, examining the mysterious case of millionaire financier Alfred Loewenstein who fell out of his own aeroplane in 1928.The suspicious death of this fabulously wealthy Belgian tycoon - then reported

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