The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of seventeenth century volumes. It also contains one dead student. Tragic and accidental, of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skellow had been engaged in stealing books rather than acquiring knowledge when he'd slipped, banged his head, and bled to death overnight. Only Imogen Quy, the college nurse, has her doubts - until another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain...
CAST:
Imogen Quy: Carolyn Pickles
Mike Parsons: Richard Derrington
Fran: Tracey Wiles
Sir William: Jeffery Dench
Mountnessing: Charles Collingwood
Lady Buckmote: Tom George
Mrs Skellow: Gillian Goodman
Lord Goldhooper: Ian Brooker
Roger: Martyn Read
Emily/Tracy: Clare Corbett
Catherine/Felicity: Jasmine Hyde
Philip Skellow: Alex Trinder
Jack: Thomas Arnold
Directed by Peter Leslie Wild
The Saturday Play: The Wyndham Case
Sat 3rd Feb 2001, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
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CAST:
Imogen Quy: Carolyn Pickles
Mike Parsons: Richard Derrington
Fran: Tracey Wiles
Sir William: Jeffery Dench
Mountnessing: Charles Collingwood
Lady Buckmote: Tom George
Mrs Skellow: Gillian Goodman
Lord Goldhooper: Ian Brooker
Roger: Martyn Read
Emily/Tracy: Clare Corbett
Catherine/Felicity: Jasmine Hyde
Philip Skellow: Alex Trinder
Jack: Thomas Arnold
Directed by Peter Leslie Wild
The Saturday Play: The Wyndham Case
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00:00We present The Wyndham Case by Jill Payton Walsh,
00:22dramatised for radio by Neville Teller,
00:24with Carolyn Pickles as Imogen Kwai.
00:30People speak of killing time,
00:41but sometimes the boot's on the other foot,
00:45and it's time that kills.
00:48Thinking back, I believe I can pinpoint the moment
00:51when death, concealed and cunning,
00:54first insinuated itself into St Agatha's College, Cambridge.
00:57It was an evening in November 1999.
01:03Micklemer's term still had half its life to run.
01:06The same, alas, couldn't be said of poor Philip Skelow.
01:12A potential new benefactor, Lord Goldhooper,
01:15had suddenly appeared,
01:17offering the College some five million pounds,
01:20and the Master, Sir William Buckmote,
01:22had invited a few people to dinner to entertain him.
01:26As college nurse,
01:28I had no real place at the table,
01:30but Lady B had begged me to balance
01:31the predominantly male guest list.
01:34Imogen, dear,
01:35I'll be the only woman.
01:37Do please help me out.
01:40Oh, yes, death was sly.
01:41Not one of us suspected the moment
01:45when, masked by the more or less idle chatter,
01:48he slid in amongst us.
01:50But what is the Wyndham case, Master?
01:55Would you believe me, Lord Goldhooper,
01:56if I told you it was a rather large
01:59and somewhat unusual bookcase?
02:01Oh, isn't that rather misleading, William, dear?
02:04No, Master, does it do justice
02:06to one of St Agatha's most respected traditions?
02:08Oh, come off it, Crispin.
02:10I'm afraid, Lord Goldhooper,
02:11that Mr Mountnessing must be considered somewhat biased.
02:15He holds the rather arcane
02:17and much too highly rewarded
02:18post of Wyndham Librarian.
02:22Mr Rumble, on the other hand,
02:24is what might be termed
02:25St Agatha's common or garden librarian.
02:28And, I may add,
02:29much less richly remunerating.
02:32I seem to have stirred up a hornet's nest, Master.
02:36I assure you I had no interest.
02:37Ah, dispute hallowed by time, Lord Goldhooper.
02:40Indeed, three centuries.
02:42The Wyndham case is one of those
02:44rather embarrassing pieces of baggage
02:46from a bygone era
02:47that so many of our Cambridge colleges
02:49are encumbered with.
02:50I'm afraid Lord Goldhooper
02:52will be getting a misleading impression
02:53of how much we welcome the quest to the college
02:55and how scrupulous we are
02:58in carrying out the terms attached to them.
03:00And that would never do,
03:02would it, Mr Mountnessing,
03:03in view of the rather special conditions
03:06I'd attach to my own donation.
03:08Actually, Lord Goldhooper,
03:09I was wondering if you include medicine
03:11among the subjects you'd prescribe
03:12under the terms of your bequest.
03:14As our college nurse,
03:16Miss Quye would be considered
03:17to have a vested interest in medicine.
03:20Quye?
03:21An unusual name.
03:23Saxon, I believe.
03:24And from this part of the world,
03:26Quye's a village in East Anglia.
03:28Well, Miss Quye,
03:29I'm afraid I classed theoretical medicine
03:32along with all the other soft sciences,
03:35sociology, economics,
03:37and the rest of the Tommy Rock
03:38that passes for academic study these days.
03:41I want my three chairs and nine scholarships
03:45to advance the sort of science
03:47capable of returning precise answers
03:49to precise questions.
03:52Physics, astronomy, inorganic chemistry.
03:55In fact, Lord Goldhooper,
03:57your approach closely parallels Christopher Wyndham's.
04:00He was a Ptolemaic astronomer,
04:03and he also imposed certain conditions
04:05when he bequeathed St Agatha's
04:07his unique library of works
04:09on that branch of science.
04:09Perhaps I should explain
04:11that the Wyndham case
04:12was given to the college
04:13as a complete library,
04:15together with the rather magnificent
04:17oak bookcase that holds it.
04:19You must come and see it.
04:20It's two stories high,
04:22with steps at one end,
04:24and even a little gallery.
04:26Fortunately, we have a room
04:27large enough to contain it.
04:29You said your benefactor
04:30imposed certain conditions.
04:33Ah, yes.
04:34Well, Wyndham lived to see
04:36the values he believed
04:37in being systematically destroyed.
04:38Isaac Newton's Principia
04:41was taking the world by storm,
04:43and the Ptolemaic system
04:45was in disrepute.
04:47Above everything,
04:48Wyndham wanted the body of knowledge
04:50that he'd gathered together
04:51to be preserved
04:52precisely as he left it.
04:54Mm-hmm.
04:55So,
04:56he attached some of the strangest conditions
04:58to his bequest
04:59that you could imagine.
05:00For example,
05:01the Wyndham room
05:02is to be kept locked
05:03at all times,
05:04except when the librarian
05:06is present,
05:07which leads to rather
05:08restricted visiting hours,
05:10wouldn't you say, Crispin?
05:12And then there's
05:12the system of audits.
05:14Audits?
05:15Yes.
05:15The complete library
05:16has to be audited
05:17within prescribed times
05:19to check that the contents
05:20are intact.
05:21Oh, and don't forget the key.
05:22Ah, yes, Lady P.
05:24Wyndham himself
05:25designed the lock,
05:26and there's only one key.
05:28I keep it on me
05:30at all times.
05:31Ah.
05:31But there is
05:32a second key.
05:34It's held by the auditor,
05:36whoever he or she...
05:38Let me explain.
05:40We don't know
05:41what arrangements
05:42Wyndham made
05:43for this audit.
05:44All we do know
05:45is that it's to be carried out
05:47once in every hundred years,
05:50but on a day
05:51chosen at random.
05:53If everything is in order,
05:55the college is to have a feast,
05:56paid for out of the bequest.
05:59And if not?
06:00Well, if ever any book
06:01is found to be missing,
06:03the college is to lose
06:04all benefit under the will.
06:06The whole bequest
06:07is to be disposed of.
06:09And since,
06:09as well as his library,
06:11Wyndham left us
06:12a great deal of property
06:14in and around Cambridge,
06:15its value today
06:16is almost incalculable.
06:18That would represent
06:20pretty near total
06:21financial ruin
06:22for the college.
06:24But since St. Agatha's
06:25seems to be flourishing,
06:27I take it the audit
06:28has always turned up trumps.
06:30How many have there been?
06:32Well, Christopher Wyndham
06:33died on the 8th of January,
06:341700.
06:35The first audit
06:36was carried out
06:37some 35 years later.
06:39There was the most
06:40splendid feast
06:41involving five dozen
06:43roast swans.
06:44Then everyone seems
06:46to have forgotten
06:47all about it.
06:49So when the second audit
06:50took place,
06:50it caused more
06:51than a little surprise.
06:52Yes, he was carried out
06:54just a hundred years ago
06:55in December 1899.
06:58The library was found
06:59to be complete
06:59and there was another feast.
07:01But that audit
07:02was out of time, surely.
07:04More than a century
07:05had elapsed
07:05since the last one.
07:06No, Lord Goldhooper.
07:07The crucial timing
07:08stems from Wyndham's death.
07:10So an audit
07:11must occur
07:12within each
07:13successive 100 years,
07:15starting from
07:16the 8th of January,
07:171700.
07:19Oh, goodness.
07:20William, dear,
07:21have you thought?
07:22It's now November 1999.
07:24That means there
07:25has to be an audit
07:26within the next
07:27six or seven weeks.
07:29What if the arrangements
07:31Wyndham made
07:32way back in 1700
07:33have lapsed?
07:34Let's hope they have,
07:35Miss Quy.
07:36That would put an end
07:37to all this nonsense.
07:38No audit
07:39and the terms
07:40of the bequest
07:41can be set aside.
07:42Not the same.
07:43I don't think
07:44we should take
07:44any chances.
07:46I assume the Wyndham case
07:47is complete, Crispin.
07:49I can assure you
07:50about that much.
07:51But, Crispin,
07:53didn't you tell me
07:54you'd sent a few volumes
07:55away to be rebound?
07:57What if the auditor
07:58had turned up
07:59while they were gone?
08:01What if he turns up
08:03tomorrow?
08:03Oh, my God!
08:05The Binders had those volumes
08:06for nearly six months.
08:07Oh, come, come.
08:08We mustn't bore our guest
08:10with this sort of thing.
08:11Lord Goldhooper,
08:12by tradition,
08:13we take port and dessert
08:14in the combination room
08:15on the other side
08:16of Fountain Court.
08:17Shall we make our way
08:18a cross?
08:19Oh, my God!
08:23No, I do not want
08:25the volumes to fall apart.
08:27But how long
08:28do they have to remain
08:29in the presses?
08:30How long?
08:32No, no, that'll never do.
08:34You must be quicker than that.
08:37Madam, I'm totally indifferent
08:41to the technicalities
08:42of your profession.
08:42All I can tell you
08:44is that we must have
08:45those three books
08:46back in St Agatha's
08:47at the earliest
08:48possible moment.
08:50No, I expect you
08:52to deliver them here
08:53yourself.
08:53No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
09:23Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I've asked you to take a glass of sherry with me this morning for a very good reason, and it has nothing to do with the millennium.
09:40Those celebrations are behind us, I'm rather pleased to say, and we'll have to wait most of another thousand years before they're repeated. No, today is the 9th of January in the year of our Lord 2000. In other words, the 300th anniversary of Wyndham's death has come and gone, and I'm happy to report that no auditor has turned up to inspect the library.
10:07In short, the terms of the Wyndham bequest have now been breached by whoever holds the trusteeship. St. Agatha's is therefore released from the onerous threat that has rested on us for the past 300 years, ever since the death, on the 8th of January 1700, of our benefactor, Christopher Wyndham, whose health I now propose.
10:35Christopher Wyndham!
10:38Christopher Wyndham!
10:50Imogen Quye?
10:51Miss Quye, please, you must come at once, please. Something terrible's happened.
10:58Where are you, Master?
10:59In the Wyndham case. Do hurry, Miss Quye.
11:03I pushed open the heavy doors of the Wyndham library to find the Master and Crispin Mount Nessing crouched by one of the tables.
11:11At their feet, spread-eagled on the floor, lay a young man.
11:17Under his head, a large pool of bright red blood had flowed widely around the leg of the table.
11:23It was edged now with a darkening rim, like an island on an old map.
11:29I can't understand it. I can't understand it.
11:34Excuse me?
11:35Miss Quye.
11:38Oh.
11:38It's Philip, isn't it?
11:46That Philip Skellow. First year.
11:49I found him like this when I unlocked the library this morning.
11:52We can't rouse him.
11:54Let me see.
11:55Too late, I'm afraid.
12:06Dead?
12:07I'm afraid so.
12:10Master, I'm sorry, but you must call the police.
12:15This looks like murder.
12:16Oh, surely not.
12:17He just fell.
12:19I don't see how a fool could have done this.
12:21But it's not for us to decide. We just call the police.
12:24Master, we must absolutely call them at once.
12:29Shall I?
12:30I do know a detective sergeant in the Cambridge station. I could talk to him.
12:35Oh, Miss Quye, would you?
12:38Sergeant Mike Parsons, please.
12:40Who may I say wants him?
12:42Imogen Quye.
12:43Imogen who?
12:44Quye. Q-U-Y.
12:46Ah, just a minute.
12:47Oh, for goodness sake. Come on, come on.
12:51Imogen, what's up?
12:53Oh, Mike, thank goodness.
12:54There's been an accident.
12:55A sort of accident? Where?
12:57Here in St Agatha's.
12:58I say accident, but I think it might be foul play.
13:01It's an undergraduate.
13:02Is he dead?
13:03I'm afraid so.
13:04Do nothing, touch nothing.
13:06I'll be over ASAP.
13:07Thanks, Mike.
13:08I'll meet you in the Porter's Lodge.
13:11So bright.
13:12The first pupil from his school ever to make it to Cambridge.
13:15I had high hopes of a first-class degree from him.
13:20Now, who on earth could have done such a thing, Sergeant?
13:25First thing, Sir William, is to find out why.
13:27Who usually follows quite quickly.
13:30Hello.
13:31What's this book on the floor?
13:32Has it come from one of these shelves?
13:34Let me see.
13:37Nova et Antica Cosmologia.
13:39Yes, it belongs at the Wyndham case.
13:40Valuable?
13:41Fairly.
13:42Not by any means the best book here.
13:44This room kept locked?
13:46Always, except when I'm here.
13:48It's a condition of the Wyndham bequest.
13:54Imogen, can we come in?
13:56Fran, of course.
13:57And Emily Stody, isn't it?
13:59You had that sprain last time.
14:01I take it your ankle's better.
14:03Well, sit down, Emily.
14:05Now, what's the matter?
14:08Someone heard her bawling away in the loo.
14:10She wouldn't come out.
14:11It took ages.
14:12Now, what's this all about, Emily?
14:15Can I help?
14:16I'm all right.
14:17Is it about Philip Scalow?
14:20Were you fond of him?
14:21Philip?
14:22Why on earth should I be fond of him?
14:23I hardly knew him, only at parties.
14:26Miss Quiet, people are saying he's been murdered.
14:28That's not true, is it?
14:29I honestly don't know what happened, Emily.
14:32The police are here to find out.
14:34Now, why don't you go and have a lie down?
14:36I'll give you something to help you relax.
14:38You'll feel better after a rest.
14:39I can't do that.
14:40I've had the lab all set up for an experiment this afternoon.
14:42I'll cancel it for you.
14:43You just go and sleep it off.
14:47Fran, are you in?
15:05In here.
15:05Oh, sorry I'm late.
15:09The police wanted another chat.
15:12I'll put some supper together in a jiff.
15:14Oh, Fran.
15:17Oh, you've got it already.
15:19Oh, you are a dear.
15:21Well, you have to keep on the best side of your land, lady.
15:24Fran, you and Professor Wiley may be my lodgers,
15:26but there's something really nasty about that work.
15:29Only kidding.
15:30Come on, sit down and tuck in.
15:32Oh, thank you.
15:37Now, you mentioned the police.
15:39Any developments?
15:40Well, in a way.
15:42I know the detective sergeant, Mike Parsons.
15:44We were on a training course together a few years ago.
15:47He came to see me just as I was getting ready to leave.
15:50Are you off duty, Mike?
15:51I can offer whiskey.
15:53Or tea, if you prefer.
15:54Am I off duty?
15:56Rather depends.
15:58Chief doesn't know why I'm calling on you,
16:00but if he did, I'd be for it.
16:02Before you start,
16:03I'd better say that college medical records are private property.
16:07A warrant to see them, Mike, even if we are old friends.
16:10Well, now, perhaps I would like a cup of tea after all.
16:14And while you're getting it, maybe I'll do some thinking aloud.
16:17I take it I don't need a warrant for that.
16:19Think away.
16:21Milk and sugar?
16:21Please.
16:22Imogen, you saw the body, so you know there's a time-of-death problem.
16:27Rigour setting in, but blood still wet.
16:30Yes.
16:30Yes, I realise.
16:32But Philip Skello wasn't haemophiliac, Mike.
16:36I'd have known about that.
16:37Perhaps the PATH report will cast some light.
16:39But it wasn't that I wanted to think about.
16:43We're having trouble interviewing victims known associates,
16:47otherwise known as undergraduates in this blessed college.
16:50I thought you might be able to help.
16:52Bet they all adore you.
16:53Oh, I doubt that.
16:54But I'll do what I can.
16:56The sooner you get to the bottom of this, the better for everyone.
16:58Put it bluntly, they're being bloody uncooperative.
17:02Except on one topic, the victim.
17:05A weed, it appears.
17:07Didn't row, didn't play rugger.
17:08A swat.
17:10Dubious honesty, too.
17:11Oh, surely not.
17:12A perfectly nice young man.
17:14Why does everyone think he wasn't honest?
17:16He seems to have had more money this term than his so-called friends reckon he should.
17:21Now, if you'd said the opposite, he was sharing a set.
17:25What?
17:25A set of rooms, that is, with Jack Taverham.
17:29And Jack is seriously wealthy.
17:31Money to burn.
17:33I gather Skello's presence was rather an embarrassment to Taverham.
17:36I think they both asked to be moved, but the bursa wasn't having any of it.
17:41No, the college deliberately encourages people from different backgrounds to mix.
17:46Philip Skello was a grammar school boy from Yorkshire.
17:51Taverham is from a big public school.
17:54The bursa told them there was no other accommodation available
17:57and advised them to make the best of it for the remainder of this year.
18:00So they were stuck with each other?
18:01Yes.
18:02It seems that Skello was a pain in the neck at Taverham's parties,
18:06and I gather Taverham threw a hell of a party the night before last.
18:09People don't get murdered for whinging at parties.
18:12Yes, but no one, and I mean no one,
18:15can remember whether Skello was there or not.
18:18Or so they claim.
18:20And if he was, everybody's absolutely certain they didn't talk to him.
18:25Why not ask Taverham?
18:27I'll have to, but we can't find him.
18:29You wouldn't know where he might be, I suppose.
18:32I could ask around.
18:35Would you do that, Imogen?
18:36I'd be very grateful.
18:37You wouldn't happen to know where Jack Taverham's got to, I suppose, Fran.
18:42Haven't a clue.
18:44Fran, that party on the 15th.
18:47Why won't people help the police?
18:49You can't blame them.
18:51I don't understand.
18:52The police,
18:53they give young people a hard time.
18:57Break up their raves,
18:58risk them for drugs.
18:59Some people are actually afraid of them.
19:01Oh, Fran, come on.
19:02We're talking about my friend Mike Parsons
19:04and his attempt to find out who murdered one of you.
19:08I think they want to know Philip was at the party.
19:10He was.
19:10I saw him there.
19:11And when he left?
19:12That I don't know.
19:14I didn't see him go.
19:16The rooms were packed,
19:17and I wasn't paying much attention to Philip.
19:19Well, couldn't he have just gone to his bedroom
19:20and closed the door?
19:21Well, no.
19:22His room would have been,
19:23well, in use.
19:26Occupied.
19:27Oh.
19:28Continuously?
19:29Repeatedly.
19:31Philip used to get browned off.
19:33Every time Jack Taverham threw a party,
19:35he couldn't use his bedroom.
19:37He used to push off somewhere else.
19:38All night sometimes.
19:39Oh.
19:40And no, I don't know where.
19:42Have you told the police this?
19:44I've answered every question they've asked.
19:47If only your friends would do as much, Fran.
19:50I honestly believe they may be getting themselves
19:52into real trouble by not helping.
19:54What sort of trouble?
19:56Obstructing a murder inquiry.
19:57Accessories to murder?
20:00But that may be the least of it
20:02if there really is a murderer amongst them,
20:05running the most terrible risks by concealing things,
20:08however worthy their motives may be.
20:10Miss Quai?
20:34Oh, hello, Nick.
20:37What can I do for you?
20:38Er, I gather you'd like to know when Philip left that blasted party.
20:42Well, the police want.
20:43But we could tell you and you'd pass it on.
20:46If you prefer.
20:47Of course, they might come straight back to you asking supplementaries.
20:50Well, he left early.
20:53I wanted to, well, borrow his bedroom for a bit,
20:57so I had to look for him.
20:58I can hardly go to a policeman with that, Miss Quai, now can I?
21:01He'd be bound to want to know which girl.
21:02It's none of his damn business.
21:03Were you surprised Philip had gone?
21:06Not particularly.
21:07I thought he might be feeling a bit off.
21:09He'd been having jabs.
21:10The whole lot for India.
21:11Typhoid, typhus, polio, tetanus, you name it.
21:14I've been through that.
21:15It made me feel pretty ropey, I can tell you.
21:17No, the PATH report isn't through yet.
21:22The point is, Mike, that I didn't give Philip that course of injections.
21:27He'd made an appointment to see me on the day he was killed, but he didn't show up.
21:31The PATH report would tell us if he'd had the injections or not.
21:34I'll give you a ring as soon as I get it.
21:38Philip had definitely left the party by ten, Miss Quai.
21:41Everyone was looking for him.
21:43Why was that, Catherine?
21:44I didn't really go along with it.
21:47He was always being picked on, and this was a bit much.
21:49Well, it would have been a bit much, only Philip left early.
21:53I suppose someone warned him.
21:55And you don't want to tell me what the joke was?
21:59Even though it was you who warned him.
22:02How did you know?
22:04Well, you mustn't tell anyone it was me.
22:05Please, Miss Quai, please don't tell anyone.
22:07I'll say nothing you don't want me to,
22:09but you're going to have to tell the police yourself, Catherine.
22:11You really must help them find who murdered him.
22:14But someone killed him in the Wyndham case, so it wasn't anyone at the party.
22:18We were all in Jack's room until quite late.
22:20Including Jack?
22:21Jack was there the whole time, right at the end.
22:23Which was?
22:24About half past one.
22:26And this practical joke you didn't approve of?
22:32Someone was going to knock Philip's face accidentally on purpose and give him a nosebleed.
22:37That would have been funny.
22:38Well, he had a thing about blood.
22:41Jack once cut himself shaving and Philip actually fainted.
22:45I didn't think it was fair.
22:47I'm glad you warned him, Catherine.
22:49It's nothing to be ashamed of.
22:53Miss Quai, I have a bone to pick with you.
22:56Professor Wiley, I didn't know you were back.
22:58Landed at 8.30 this morning.
23:00I've just got back to the flat.
23:01Now, I want it returned.
23:03And at once, please, Miss Quai.
23:05It what?
23:06Oh, please, don't play the innocent, Miss Quai.
23:08You've removed one of my books while I was abroad, and I wish it returned.
23:13Immediately, please, Miss Quai.
23:15The safety of my property is your responsibility.
23:18Professor Wiley, I assure you I haven't the faintest idea what you're referring to.
23:22I can't imagine what interest the volume would hold for you.
23:24It's of interest only to scholars, but it's invaluable beyond price.
23:29Professor Wiley, please wait till I get home tonight.
23:32Then Fran Bullion and I will help you look for it.
23:34I'm sure it's somewhere in the flat.
23:37Now, please, don't distress yourself any further.
23:40Everything will be all right, I'm certain.
23:44Can I help you?
23:45Um, I'm here on the off chance.
23:47I was passing and you seemed a bit quiet.
23:50Could you fit in a cup and blow-dry for me without an appointment?
23:53Ah, I'm not quite sure.
23:56Our stylist has had some other bad news.
23:59Tracy?
24:00Yes, Mrs. Pringle?
24:02Do you think you can cope?
24:06If you're not well, it honestly doesn't matter.
24:08I can come back another time.
24:10No, I can manage.
24:10It'll give me something else to think about.
24:12Please, over here.
24:14Right.
24:19Cheer up.
24:20It's probably not as bad as you think.
24:21Tracy, we have you left to go off sea.
24:28I'm so sorry, madam.
24:29Please bear with us.
24:31Tracy's boyfriend...
24:32They've been murdered.
24:34They bloody murdered him.
24:36Oh, no.
24:38Philip.
24:41How do you know?
24:42I'm a nurse at his college.
24:45Then you must be the one he was going to see that day.
24:48Only.
24:49Come on.
24:50Let me walk you home.
24:52I live in the flat upstairs, top floor.
24:55Then let's go up, eh?
24:57I'll make you a cup of tea.
25:01You see, we're unisex here.
25:03Philip came in for a haircut.
25:05And then he asked if I wanted to go to the pictures.
25:07And then we went out together.
25:09He used to come back here sometimes.
25:11Tracy, did you see him last Wednesday?
25:14Oh, yes.
25:15Well, he got here quite late and we went to bed.
25:17I thought he'd stay till morning, but he said he had to go.
25:21He went about midnight.
25:23If only I'd made him stay.
25:25He'd be alive now.
25:27Tracy, Philip was supposed to see me that day
25:29to start on a course of inoculations, but he didn't show.
25:33Do you know why?
25:35Yes.
25:36You see, I collected the injections for him on Tuesday,
25:38but when the time came to go across to your surgery,
25:42he couldn't find the chemist's bag.
25:43He said he thought that stuck-up prig he shared with
25:46had hidden it as a joke.
25:47But he hadn't.
25:49And then the two of them went round knocking at doors
25:51and one of the girls had it.
25:53She'd been in their rooms earlier and picked it up by mistake.
25:56You see, she'd just collected a prescription herself,
25:58but it was in her bag.
25:59So why didn't he come over to my surgery then?
26:01Were you gone by then?
26:03Phil was worried.
26:04The first jabs had to be given on Wednesday
26:06so that he could have the booster before he left for India.
26:09And that Jack Taverham said he didn't need a nurse.
26:11One of the medical students could give it.
26:13So they found someone to inject the stuff.
26:16Do you know who?
26:18Someone called Felicity.
26:20He's the same as my best friend at school.
26:22But that was why he was so late.
26:24So what time did he turn up here?
26:27Oh, ten, quarter past.
26:30And he left about twelve?
26:31I couldn't stop him.
26:33He said he had something he had to do.
26:36A little night work, he called it.
26:38He said it was important.
26:41And that was the last I saw of him.
26:44I'm afraid that little job in the middle of the night
26:46was a spot of breaking and entering.
26:49That library's stuffed full of valuable books.
26:52Oh, but Mike, this is just a lad from Yorkshire.
26:56How could he dispose of famous books
26:58like those in the Wyndham collection, I asked him?
27:00Someone was using him.
27:02Someone, perhaps, who wanted particular books.
27:06Perhaps is the right word.
27:12Could we have missed it, Professor?
27:15Should we start again?
27:16This is no good.
27:18There's no point.
27:18It isn't here.
27:21The three of us have been over every book in the place.
27:24How could we have missed a great calf-bound quarter
27:26with Bartholomew, gold-tooled down the spine?
27:30Well, you must tell the police.
27:32Then get their help to alert booksellers to the theft.
27:35Yes, the police.
27:37Of course.
27:39I need a phone.
27:40I must get to a phone.
27:41We were back in the Master's Lodge
27:59while Sir William made a further effort
28:01to argue Lord Goldhooper
28:03out of the restrictive conditions to his bequest.
28:05I've been speaking to some of my scientific colleagues,
28:16Lord Goldhooper,
28:17and they feel that you may have the wrong picture
28:20about scientific theory and practice,
28:22to some extent, at least.
28:25I think not, Master,
28:27but I'm certainly willing to hear what they say.
28:30My colleagues understand your preference for hard
28:34as opposed to theoretical science,
28:37but they point out that scientific knowledge
28:40doesn't usually advance step by step
28:44through pure empirical deduction.
28:46Someone gets a hunch,
28:48guesses what the truth might be,
28:50and then, of course,
28:51one sets up experiments to test whether it is so.
28:54It's hard to set up experiments
28:57in the absence of a theory to test.
29:00If the conditions you impose on your bequest
29:03are too restrictive,
29:04they could actually deter hard scientific discovery.
29:10Lord Goldhooper seemed thoughtful
29:12as once more,
29:14following long-established custom,
29:16we left the hall to cross Fountain Court
29:18to where port and dessert
29:20awaited us in the combination room.
29:22It was a night of bright stars,
29:26and Lord Goldhooper,
29:28less familiar than his chilled hosts
29:30with the effect of moon and starlight
29:32on the glories of the quadrangle,
29:34lingered beside the great basin of the fountain.
29:38The water jets had been turned off at midnight,
29:41and the surface of the basin was glass smooth.
29:45Reluctantly but politely,
29:48the party paused beside the pool.
29:49Roger Rumbolt drew his gown across his dress shirt,
29:54Crispin Mountnessing stamped on the worn flags.
29:57Lord Goldhooper opened his mouth
29:59as though to make some comment,
30:01but not a syllable emerged
30:03as something surfaced in the pool.
30:06The moon sailed from behind a cloud
30:08and showed us what it was.
30:10The body of a young woman,
30:13her hair drawn in strands across her face,
30:16her skirt ballooning among the lily leaves.
30:19Like a green and pallid Lady of Shalott,
30:23she floated among the reflected stars.
30:26Yes?
30:32What is it?
30:33Come in.
30:35Wakey, wakey.
30:38Roger.
30:38Ah, good morning, Imogen.
30:41You asked to be woken early.
30:43Is 6.45 early enough?
30:45Yes, yes, thank you.
30:46I couldn't sleep anyway.
30:48My sofa doesn't make the most comfortable of beds.
30:53Oh, my God, last night.
30:56The police, all those questions,
30:58and that poor girl.
31:01You know, for a terrible moment,
31:02I thought it was a particular friend of mine,
31:04Fran Bullion.
31:05Whereas, it was only Felicity Marshall.
31:08Roger, that's unworthy of you.
31:10I know, I know, I'm sorry.
31:12Well, the police have cordoned off,
31:15found him caught.
31:16I suppose we'll soon know
31:18whether it was accident,
31:19suicide,
31:20or whether the St. Agatha killer
31:22has struck again.
31:24Roger.
31:26I must get up.
31:27Thanks for the loan of the bed.
31:29A godsend.
31:31I couldn't have faced that journey home.
31:34Now, I really must get up.
31:38I'll take these sheets down
31:39to the students' laundrette for you.
31:40See you in a hall for breakfast, OK?
31:44Oh, hello, Emily.
31:46You're up early.
31:47Can't sleep.
31:49A bit upset about Philip.
31:50Why on earth should anyone think
31:51I give a damn about him?
31:53He was a rat, Miss Quiley.
31:54Oh, that's harsh.
31:56Do you really mean it?
31:56A pest.
31:57Scuttling about where he wasn't wanted.
31:59That's what rats do.
32:01Do you know what happens to rats?
32:03Philip was a noose as to Jack Tavrum.
32:05Is that what you mean?
32:06Emily, you must realise
32:07that Jack's disappearance
32:08looks very bad.
32:10If I knew where he was,
32:11do you think I'd be moping round here?
32:13I'm sick of your pretend sympathy
32:14and your leading questions.
32:16You may have got round
32:17some of the others,
32:17but you don't fool me.
32:21Anyone here?
32:23Mike, thank God
32:24you've come.
32:25Listen to this.
32:26It was on my answer phone
32:27when I got in this morning.
32:29Oh, Miss Quai,
32:31it's Felicity Marshall.
32:32I need some help.
32:34I'll come and talk to you tomorrow.
32:35Only I need to tell someone
32:36this right now.
32:37It may be my fault.
32:39I forgot to check the seals.
32:41I'm really frightened.
32:44Forgot to check the what?
32:46But it sounds like seals.
32:48How did she die, Mike?
32:51Was it accidental?
32:53Or perhaps suicide?
32:54Pray not.
32:55Signs of a struggle.
32:57Bruising where she was held under.
32:59It's murder.
33:01And I'd say this recording
33:02confirms it, wouldn't you?
33:03It looks bad.
33:05She knew something
33:07about Philip Skello's death.
33:09Something so dangerous
33:10to the murderer
33:11that she had
33:13to be silenced.
33:21Imogen Quai?
33:22Oh, Imogen,
33:23thank goodness
33:23I've reached you.
33:24You don't happen to know
33:25where Professor Wiley is,
33:27do you?
33:28I'm at a reception
33:29packed with bigwigs,
33:30all waiting to hear
33:31his bank's lecture,
33:32and he hasn't turned up.
33:34Someone's been round
33:35to your house,
33:36but there's no one there.
33:37He's simply disappeared.
33:39Have you any ideas?
33:40He's in a funny state,
33:43Lady B.
33:43He's lost
33:44or been robbed of,
33:45an important book.
33:46He's very upset.
33:48Upset enough
33:49to thumb his nose
33:50at the bank's lecture?
33:51He's manoeuvred
33:52for years to be invited,
33:54or so William tells me.
33:56Oh, you know,
33:56this is going to be
33:57very, very embarrassing.
34:00Come in, Fran.
34:03Oh, you do look down.
34:05Coffee?
34:07Please.
34:10Imogen,
34:13I must talk to you.
34:14Here.
34:16Now, sit down.
34:17What's all this about?
34:19I can't tell you
34:20how I hate this.
34:22Oh, but poor Felicity.
34:25You remember
34:26how you asked me
34:27to try to get people
34:28to come clean
34:28and help the police?
34:30Well,
34:31it wasn't easy
34:32because they'd all
34:33promised not to.
34:34Good God,
34:35who to?
34:37Someone.
34:37the morning
34:39after Philip
34:39was killed.
34:41They found as many
34:42of Jack's friends
34:42as they could.
34:43Not me,
34:44because I was at a lecture.
34:47Someone told them
34:48there'd been a bust-up
34:48of some kind
34:49between Jack and Philip
34:50after the party
34:51the night before,
34:52and that when Jack
34:53heard Philip
34:54had been murdered,
34:54he'd done a bunk.
34:55But why?
34:57I suppose he thought
34:58it'd be pinned
34:59onto him.
35:00Anyway,
35:01all his friends
35:02agreed to keep Mum
35:03to help him.
35:04Everyone likes Jack,
35:06but people got pressed
35:08by the police,
35:09began telling them
35:09things that they thought
35:10weren't very important.
35:12Like the time
35:12Philip left the party.
35:14Mm.
35:15Funny how time
35:17plays such an important
35:18part in all this.
35:19Yeah.
35:20And Philip
35:21losing his prescription.
35:23Right now,
35:23someone's running
35:24a witch hunt
35:24to find out
35:25who told them that.
35:27Fran,
35:28do you think
35:29that this someone
35:29you keep mentioning
35:30on the Protect Jack
35:31committee might have
35:32killed Felicity Marshall
35:33to shut her up?
35:34Oh, God,
35:35I can't believe it.
35:36But, Fran, dear,
35:37this is looking
35:37very ugly, isn't it?
35:39If people are being
35:40threatened,
35:40shouldn't you tell me
35:41who it is?
35:43I suppose.
35:46Well, it's mostly Emily.
35:48She's gaga about Jack.
35:50Funny thing is,
35:51she hasn't got a hope.
35:52Jack doesn't give
35:52a damn about her.
35:55Sorry for dragging
35:57you away like this,
35:58but you're the first
35:59person I could think of
36:00who could identify
36:01the old fellow
36:02at a glance.
36:03He's in Addenbrooke's
36:04hospital,
36:05rambling away.
36:06Seems to have
36:06lost his memory.
36:07But I'm pretty sure
36:08it's your Professor Wiley.
36:10Where did you find him?
36:11Drummond Street
36:12bus station.
36:13Didn't know where
36:14he was going,
36:15and he didn't know
36:15where he'd come from.
36:17Memory loss
36:18seems to have been
36:18caused by a bump
36:19on the head.
36:20A fall?
36:21Quite a fall.
36:23Concussion,
36:24from behind
36:25and above.
36:26Looks much more
36:27like assault.
36:28Possible failed
36:29attempt at murder.
36:30My God.
36:32But Mikey's been
36:33missing three
36:34whole days.
36:35He can't have been
36:35sitting in Drummond Street
36:36all that time.
36:40Have you brought
36:41my book?
36:42I'm sorry,
36:42Professor,
36:43no,
36:43it hasn't been found.
36:45How are you feeling?
36:47Terrible.
36:48Not only is one robbed,
36:50one is incarcerated
36:51for mentioning the fact.
36:53I expect they're
36:54doing the best for you.
36:55You can leave
36:55as soon as you're
36:56well enough.
36:56Oh,
36:57I'm all right here.
36:59It's a bloody dungeon
37:00I'm complaining about.
37:02And if I've been robbed,
37:03why shouldn't I say so?
37:05Cambridge has become
37:07terrible.
37:08It's back to Tuscany
37:09for me.
37:11And my book's
37:13with me.
37:14Come in, Nick.
37:18Take a seat.
37:21Now,
37:22what can I do for you?
37:24I've come to talk
37:25about Jack.
37:26Not to me, Nick.
37:28Go and tell the police.
37:29Please listen,
37:30Miss Quy.
37:31I'm worried about him.
37:32We all are, Nick.
37:33If you know something...
37:34I don't.
37:35But he phoned me
37:36last night.
37:37He was fearfully
37:38upset about Felicity.
37:39He'd read about it
37:40in the papers.
37:41Why is he scared, Nick?
37:42Is he in hiding?
37:44He had some kind
37:46of set-to with
37:46Philip that night.
37:48Then when Philip
37:48was found murdered,
37:50he was afraid
37:50it'd all be pinned
37:51on him.
37:52Someone killing
37:52Felicity makes it worse.
37:54I can't make him see
37:55that the only way
37:55is to come back
37:56to Cambridge
37:56and explain.
37:58Nick,
37:58what precisely
37:59do you want
38:00to tell me?
38:01He didn't say
38:02where he is,
38:03but I can guess.
38:05And if he tries
38:06to get out of the country,
38:07he'd be making it
38:07a thousand times worse.
38:09You wouldn't like
38:10to come and talk
38:10to him.
38:11Where?
38:13Felixster.
38:14Jack's parents
38:15have a beach hut
38:15there.
38:16Quite well equipped,
38:17really.
38:18It's where he'd hide out.
38:21Meet me at two
38:22outside the
38:22Porter's Lodge.
38:25Ah, Mike.
38:25Ah, please,
38:26your phone, Imogen.
38:27We've just got
38:28the path report
38:29on Philip Skelow.
38:30Double blow
38:30to the head.
38:31Not a bash,
38:32the result of a fall.
38:34But he didn't die
38:35from a fractured skull.
38:36Cause of death
38:37was a lethal
38:38hemorrhage
38:38inside the cranium.
38:40And the reason
38:40for that
38:41was a heavy dose
38:42of heparin
38:43administered intravenously.
38:45What?
38:46In other words,
38:47he'd been injected
38:48with an anticoagulant
38:50and he bled to death.
38:51Oh, dear.
38:54Well,
38:55this makes
38:55what I've got to tell you
38:56all the more important, Mike.
38:59I'm going somewhere
39:00interesting this afternoon.
39:01Oh?
39:01Where's that, then?
39:02No,
39:03I'm not telling the police.
39:04citizens' rights.
39:06But
39:06someone might think
39:08I needed a little minding.
39:09And, um,
39:11if they did...
39:17Nick!
39:18Thank God you've come.
39:20And
39:20Miss Quyfe, is there?
39:21Yes.
39:22I brought her along.
39:24Well, Jack,
39:24we come in?
39:25Yes, yes, of course.
39:27It's not very comfortable,
39:29I'm afraid.
39:30If you hadn't turned up,
39:31I don't know where
39:32I'd have got my next meal.
39:34Dad's frozen my account.
39:36I was going to throw myself
39:37on the mercy of the local police.
39:38This'll be better.
39:40You're going to talk
39:40to Miss Quy here
39:41and she'll witness
39:42what you say
39:42before anyone can get at you.
39:44I hope you will talk to me, Jack.
39:47Evening off.
39:48Quite a party.
39:50Mind if I join him?
39:51You're that police sergeant,
39:53aren't you?
39:54Miss Quyfe,
39:55how could you?
39:55This is quite despicable of you.
39:57Jack, I promise you,
39:57I had no idea.
39:58Calm down.
40:00Miss Quyfe's been under
40:01police surveillance
40:02ever since we learned
40:03that Felicity Marshall
40:04foamed her on the night
40:05that she was killed.
40:06She quite specifically
40:07did not tell me
40:08what she was doing
40:09or where she was bound for.
40:11It doesn't matter, Nick.
40:13I'm glad, in a way.
40:15Can I tell you what happened,
40:16Sergeant...
40:17Parsons.
40:18Mike Parsons.
40:24Well, fire away.
40:27It was after the party.
40:29When they'd all gone,
40:30I went out into the quad
40:31to get some fresh air.
40:33It was then I saw Philip.
40:35When was this?
40:36Oh, one.
40:37One fifteen.
40:39Anyway, he was standing
40:40in the shadows
40:40with his back to me,
40:42facing the door
40:42of the Wyndham Library.
40:43I thought he was
40:44taking a leak.
40:46Suddenly he disappeared
40:47and I saw the door
40:48of the library closing.
40:50I'll catch the bastard
40:51at it, I thought.
40:52Catch him at what?
40:53Well, theft, of course.
40:55Nobody could have
40:56legitimate business
40:57in the Wyndham at that hour.
40:59Anyway, it explained
40:59where all his cash
41:00was coming from.
41:01Poor as a church mouse
41:02in his first term
41:03and now state-of-the-art
41:04computer games,
41:05internet purchases,
41:06you name it.
41:07Surely there could be
41:07some other explanation.
41:09I didn't put two and two
41:10together till I saw him
41:11lurking outside the Wyndham.
41:14So I followed him
41:14to catch him at it.
41:16I saw him go up
41:18to the gallery,
41:19pick out a book,
41:20check something
41:21in a notebook,
41:22then come down
41:23and put the book
41:24on the table.
41:28Hello, Philip.
41:28Oh, my God!
41:30He gave me a fright.
41:33What the hell
41:33are you doing here?
41:35Get out of it.
41:35You just put that book back.
41:38You're in for it now,
41:39you know.
41:40By tomorrow,
41:41the whole college
41:42will know you're
41:42nothing but a bloody thief.
41:43You're pissed.
41:45Look, Jack,
41:46we can easily
41:47sort this out.
41:47I'll explain in the morning.
41:48Now, just get out of here,
41:49will you?
41:50Not before you give me
41:51that book.
41:53Come on.
41:54Let go of it.
41:55You do it.
41:56Let go!
41:58Get him right there.
41:59You were both
41:59tugging at it,
42:00but I couldn't get a grip.
42:01So I shocked him
42:02as hard as I could.
42:04He fell over
42:04and cracked his head
42:06on the corner of the table
42:07and then again
42:08on the marble floor.
42:10He lay there
42:11bleeding,
42:12but his eyes were open.
42:13Jack!
42:15I'm feeling terribly dizzy.
42:18I don't think
42:19I can get up.
42:19Try.
42:20Stay there.
42:21I'll get some help.
42:22Be quick.
42:24Be quick as you can.
42:26I ran out
42:27to get Felicity Marshall.
42:28She's a third-year medic.
42:29Why not the night porter?
42:31Well,
42:31if the authorities were called,
42:32Philip would be
42:32a dead trouble.
42:34I thought we could
42:34sort it out ourselves.
42:36And then?
42:37Well,
42:38I managed to wake Felicity
42:39and she came back with me.
42:41But when we got there,
42:41we couldn't get in.
42:42The door was locked.
42:43What did you think
42:44had happened?
42:45Well,
42:46either he'd got up
42:46and left
42:47or he'd got up
42:47and bolted the door
42:48to go and raid him
42:49the shelves.
42:50Either way,
42:50we thought,
42:51he can't be badly hurt.
42:52So?
42:54We went back to my room
42:55for a whiskey.
42:56When Felicity saw the blood
42:57all over my shirt front,
42:58she went a bit pale.
43:00She insisted
43:00we went back to the Wyndham.
43:02We knocked on the door
43:03and called out as loud
43:03as we dared,
43:04but there was no answer.
43:05So we had a quick drink
43:07and went to bed.
43:09Are you going to charge me
43:10with murder?
43:12Not up to me, sir.
43:14You'll have to wait and see.
43:16Imogen,
43:17thought you'd like to know
43:18we've made an arrest.
43:20Ah,
43:20let me guess.
43:23Emily Stody.
43:25Good God.
43:27Are you a witch or something?
43:28How'd you get on to that?
43:30How did you?
43:31Handsome Jack,
43:32under some pressure,
43:33admitted that when
43:34Philip's missing prescription
43:35was found,
43:36it was Emily who had it.
43:38Now,
43:39what put you on to her?
43:40Access to heparin.
43:42She's a vet.
43:43I asked a friend
43:44in the vet school.
43:45They've got a project
43:45going on,
43:46anti-coagulants.
43:47You're a marvel.
43:48I'm coming over.
43:49You can tell me
43:50how you see
43:50this whole nasty business.
43:52Well,
43:54Emily Stody
43:55had an unrequited
43:57passion for Jack Taverham.
44:00Jack set up
44:01this so-called
44:02joke
44:02to give Philip
44:04a nosebleed
44:05and have him
44:05faint at the sight
44:06of his own blood.
44:08Emily thought
44:09she'd curry favour
44:10by improving on it.
44:11Heparin in Philip's
44:12bloodstream
44:13would make the nosebleed
44:14spectacular.
44:15And her opportunity
44:16came when she found
44:18Philip's jabs
44:18in the chemist's bag
44:19just lying around.
44:21Exactly.
44:22Only it all went wrong
44:23and Emily found
44:25she'd led her hero
44:26into killing someone.
44:27She knew why
44:28Philip had died
44:29from a simple fall.
44:30No wonder
44:31she was hysterical
44:32the next day.
44:33And then Felicity Marshall
44:34guessed the truth.
44:35And was desperate
44:36to tell me.
44:38By silencing her,
44:39Emily would be
44:40protecting both herself
44:41and Jack,
44:42chiefly herself.
44:43And what was she doing
44:45washing clothes
44:46so early in the morning?
44:47Were they muddy
44:48from a struggle
44:49in the lily pool?
44:50You've asked me,
44:51is this another
44:52little bit of
44:52lucky deduction?
44:53It's just that
44:54I met Emily
44:55in the laundrette
44:56washing clothes
44:57the morning after
44:58Felicity died.
44:59I see.
45:01That's what I know.
45:03Now, it's your turn.
45:05Now, you're sitting
45:06comfortably.
45:06Mm-hmm.
45:08Philip got fed up
45:09with the party
45:09and went off
45:10to see Tracy.
45:11He came back
45:11after one
45:12and went straight
45:13to the Wyndham.
45:14He picked the lock,
45:15went in,
45:16and looked for
45:17a particular book
45:18that his contact
45:19wanted.
45:19Then,
45:20things happened
45:21as Jack said.
45:22Have you a theory
45:23as to how the door
45:24came to be locked
45:25when Jack went back
45:26with Felicity?
45:27Has it occurred to you
45:28that Jack might be lying?
45:30Perhaps he didn't
45:30go to fetch help.
45:32Perhaps he just
45:32went back to bed,
45:33not caring a damn.
45:34Perhaps, Mike,
45:35you and I might
45:36just go and have a word
45:37with our eminent
45:38Wyndham librarian,
45:39Crispin Mount Nessing.
45:40I've had a thought.
45:45On the night
45:46of the calamity,
45:48I'd been spending
45:48the evening
45:49with the dean.
45:50He had some
45:50rather good brandy
45:51and we stayed up
45:52very late talking.
45:54Well, when I finally
45:55left...
45:55When was this, sir?
45:56Almost two o'clock.
45:58I had to pass
45:59the library door
46:00on my way back
46:01to my rooms.
46:02As I did so,
46:03I tried the door
46:04as a sort of
46:04nervous reflex
46:05and I found it open.
46:07So I locked it.
46:08You just locked it?
46:09You didn't go in?
46:11No, Imogen, I didn't.
46:12I assumed it was open
46:14because I'd forgotten
46:14to lock it.
46:16It's happened before.
46:17More than once,
46:18I'm afraid,
46:18and it shouldn't
46:19happen at all.
46:20It's a breach
46:20of the terms
46:21of the bequest.
46:22So you decided
46:22to say nothing about it?
46:24What happened
46:24to the notebook?
46:25Nova at Antica Cosmologia.
46:27It's back in its
46:28proper place
46:28up there in the gallery.
46:29I didn't mean
46:29that book, Crispin.
46:31I meant the notebook
46:31that Philip had,
46:32according to Jack Taverham.
46:34I found no notebook.
46:35Only a corpse.
46:36Ah, Imogen!
46:40Just the person
46:41I was looking for.
46:42Can you spare a moment?
46:43Of course, Lady B.
46:45Um, let's walk
46:45over to my office.
46:47My dear,
46:48I'm delighted
46:48the police have closed
46:49the case,
46:50but I'm very upset
46:51about young
46:51Philip Scalow.
46:53It's taken for granted
46:54that he was stealing
46:55books from the college,
46:56and I don't think
46:57there's a shred of proof.
46:58I'm with you entirely,
47:00Lady B.
47:00But the worst of it
47:01is that the college
47:02council has decided
47:03not to send anyone
47:04to Philip's funeral.
47:05What?
47:06I think that's monstrous.
47:08Well,
47:08the college council
47:09can't dictate to me,
47:11and I've decided
47:11to attend.
47:12Only for you.
47:13And I was hoping
47:14you'd chair the driving.
47:16Say no more.
47:19My husband's all
47:21cut up about
47:21this stealing business,
47:23Miss Quy.
47:25And it seems
47:26wrong to me, too.
47:28I just don't think
47:29our Philip were a thief.
47:30Nor do I,
47:31Mrs Scalow.
47:34Thank you for that.
47:36But even if he was,
47:38I'd gladly have him
47:39serving 20 years
47:40if that meant
47:40he was still alive.
47:44I'm grieving
47:45for my son,
47:47Miss Quy.
47:50But can you guess
47:51what else?
47:52Tell me.
47:55The daughter-in-law
47:56I'll never have.
47:57You see,
47:59I did so
48:01want a daughter,
48:02but I couldn't
48:04have any more
48:05after Philip.
48:06My husband
48:07never did understand.
48:10But I used to think,
48:11well,
48:12never mind.
48:14I'll have a daughter-in-law
48:15someday.
48:18And now I never will.
48:19Just tip the tea
48:22and Maria
48:22into the coffee,
48:23Imogen.
48:23You won't regret it.
48:25If you say so.
48:26Hmm.
48:29Now,
48:29what's this interesting
48:30little matter of yours?
48:32I was researching
48:33some 18th century letters
48:35while you were away.
48:36Oh.
48:36And I thought,
48:37Imogen said time
48:39was important.
48:40I wonder what
48:40she'll make of this.
48:42You see,
48:42what puzzled me
48:43was the way
48:44they wrote their dates
48:45around the middle
48:45of the century.
48:46How do you mean?
48:48Well,
48:49they started dating
48:49their letters
48:50something like
48:51the 10th of March,
48:521752 stroke 1753.
48:55First,
48:56I thought perhaps
48:56they weren't sure
48:57about the year.
48:58But so many people
48:59did it that I thought
49:00there must be more to it.
49:02And is there?
49:03Oh, yes.
49:041752 was the year
49:05that England adopted
49:06the Gregorian calendar.
49:08Oh, yes,
49:08of course.
49:09Hadn't the old system
49:10got so skew-wiffed
49:11that they had to
49:12chop out some days?
49:1411.
49:15So the 2nd of September
49:17was followed by
49:17the 14th.
49:19People thought
49:20they were being robbed
49:20of 11 days of their life
49:21and cheated of 11 days' pay.
49:23Oh, interesting.
49:25So to celebrate
49:27the true anniversary
49:27of any event
49:28before the change,
49:29we should move
49:30the date 11 days on.
49:32Wyndham's death,
49:33for example,
49:33was on January 8, 1700,
49:35but the true tricentenary
49:37fell on January 19, 2000.
49:40Oh, but Imogen,
49:41that's not the only change
49:42that happened in 1752.
49:44Mm-hmm.
49:45The law that removed
49:46the 11 days
49:47also reformed the calendar.
49:49It changed the way
49:49we calculate the year.
49:51What on earth do you mean?
49:53Okay.
49:54Well, up to
49:55and including 1752,
49:58the year began
49:59on March the 25th,
50:00Lady Day,
50:01and ended
50:02the following March the 24th.
50:04But as part
50:05of the calendar reforms,
50:06it was decreed
50:07that 1752
50:09would end
50:09on the 31st of December,
50:12not in the following March.
50:13Hold it.
50:15Is what you're saying
50:16that what we now
50:17call January 1752
50:18started life
50:20as January 1751,
50:22the 10th month
50:22of the previous year?
50:23In other words,
50:24that it was still 1751?
50:26Yes,
50:26and in any dated document
50:28going back
50:28for hundreds
50:29and hundreds of years,
50:30when you see
50:31a January,
50:31February or March,
50:33the year is a year earlier
50:34than what we now reckon it.
50:36So,
50:36the Wyndham bequest,
50:38which dates
50:39from Christopher Wyndham's
50:40death on the 8th
50:40of January 1700,
50:42doesn't.
50:44What they call
50:45January 1700
50:46is what we now
50:48call January 1701.
50:50Oh.
50:51The tricentenary
50:51doesn't happen
50:52until next January.
50:54January 2001.
50:56Oh.
50:58After that,
50:58Master,
50:59it all fell into place.
51:01I went back
51:02to the Skelos
51:03and Philip's mother
51:03looked out
51:04his bank statements.
51:05She helped me
51:06trace a cheque
51:07for a thousand pounds
51:09back to a firm
51:10of solicitors
51:10in the town.
51:11I went to see
51:12the chief partner
51:13and it was
51:14what I'd suspected.
51:15They were the trustees
51:16of the Wyndham bequest.
51:18Ah.
51:18Good God.
51:19They'd been alerted
51:20to the fact
51:21that an audit
51:21was due
51:22before January 19th,
51:232001,
51:24according to
51:25our modern calendar.
51:26Who alerted them?
51:28I'll come to that.
51:29Anyway,
51:30Philip was well known
51:31in the town,
51:32the first to have won
51:33a scholarship to St Agatha's,
51:35who more obvious
51:35to appoint as auditor.
51:37Ah, yes.
51:37That's what he was about
51:39the night he was killed.
51:41Only,
51:42he discovered
51:43a discrepancy.
51:45What sort of a discrepancy?
51:47He discovered,
51:48Lady B,
51:48that the copy
51:49of the Cosmologia
51:50on the shelves
51:50of the Wyndham case
51:51was the wrong copy.
51:54What do you mean,
51:55the wrong copy?
51:56It was the edition
51:57by Aldous Bartholomew,
51:59published in 1708,
52:01after Wyndham's death.
52:03There were two Bartholomews,
52:05Ricardo and Aldous,
52:07father and son.
52:08The edition Philip found
52:09had been stolen
52:10from Professor Wiley
52:11and substituted
52:12for the volume
52:13in the Wyndham.
52:14But why,
52:15for heaven's sake?
52:17And by whom?
52:18This is the difficult bit.
52:20Master,
52:21it all started
52:21when you began
52:22to rejoice
52:23that the audit
52:24was out of time,
52:25because,
52:25as we now know,
52:27it wasn't.
52:28There was still
52:29a year to run.
52:31This someone knew that
52:32and decided to play
52:33a trick
52:34on Crispin Mount Nessing.
52:36This someone stole,
52:38I expect he'd say borrowed,
52:40an edition
52:40of the Cosmologia
52:41by Aldous Bartholomew,
52:43published after
52:44Wyndham's death,
52:45and put it
52:46alongside
52:47the legitimate one,
52:49feeling pretty sure
52:50that Crispin
52:51wouldn't notice.
52:52And that's the book
52:53Professor Wiley knows.
52:54Exactly.
52:55Then this someone
52:57did a little research,
52:59tracked the trust
53:00Wyndham set up
53:00to carry out
53:01the audits in perpetuity,
53:03and jogged
53:04the firm's memory.
53:05And I suppose
53:06we can deduce
53:07that the mysterious
53:08perpetrator
53:08was Roger Rumble.
53:11But he and Crispin
53:12Mount Nessing
53:12never concealed
53:13their dislike
53:14of each other.
53:15It must have seemed
53:16like a jolly jake
53:17which would thoroughly
53:18discomfort his rival.
53:20So,
53:21where has
53:21Professor Wiley's
53:22edition been
53:23all this time?
53:24Crispin concealed it.
53:27When he unlocked
53:28the library that morning,
53:29it was Professor
53:29Wiley's later
53:30Bartholomew
53:31lying next to
53:32Philip's body.
53:33He found two other
53:34things that shocked
53:35him as well.
53:36A second key
53:37to the library
53:38and Philip's
53:39notebook with a
53:40complete listing
53:41of the Wyndham
53:42volumes.
53:43He realised at once
53:45that Philip had
53:45been conducting
53:46the third audit.
53:47So he took
53:48the right
53:48Bartholomew
53:49from the shelves
53:50and laid it
53:50on the floor.
53:51Then he hid
53:52the later edition,
53:53the key
53:54and the notebook.
53:56Oh, poor Crispin.
53:57When Professor
53:58Wiley reported
53:58the loss,
53:59Crispin must have
54:00been terrified.
54:01Poor Crispin.
54:02He lured the
54:03Professor to a meeting
54:04and locked him up
54:05somewhere damp
54:06and dark.
54:07I think he must have
54:08clobbered the old
54:08fellow as well
54:09to stop him
54:09ranting away.
54:10Of course.
54:12There is a disused
54:13undercroft in the
54:14Wyndham wing.
54:15Who knows
54:17about all this,
54:19Imogen?
54:19Besides Roger
54:20Rumbull and Crispin
54:21Mountnessy?
54:22Only we three,
54:23Master.
54:24I'm going to call
54:25an emergency meeting
54:26of the College
54:27Council.
54:28I rather think
54:29we shall have to
54:30dispense with the
54:31services of both
54:32our librarians.
54:45Mrs. Scalow?
54:54Yes?
54:54It's Imogen.
54:55Imogen Quy.
54:56I have some news
54:57for you.
54:58I told you all
54:59about Tracy.
55:01Well, she's here
55:02with me.
55:03It's just been
55:04confirmed.
55:05She's pregnant.
55:07And she very much
55:08wants to have the
55:09baby.
55:09Philip's baby.
55:11Oh!
55:12Oh, Miss
55:13Quy!
55:15What can I say?
55:17Oh, she must
55:18come and see us
55:19as soon as
55:19possible.
55:21Oh!
55:22Do you think I
55:22could have a word
55:23with her?
55:23Yes, of course.
55:24Here she is.
55:25In the Wyndham
55:42case by Jill
55:42Payton Walsh,
55:44Carolyn Pickles
55:45played Imogen
55:45Quy and Richard
55:47Derrington
55:47Mike Parsons.
55:49Sir William was
55:50played by
55:51Geoffrey Dench,
55:52Lady Buckmote
55:53by Marlene
55:54Sidaway,
55:54Fran Bullion
55:56by Tracey Wiles,
55:57Mount Nessing
55:58by Charles
55:59Collingwood
55:59and Mrs.
56:00Skello
56:01by Gillian
56:02Goodman.
56:03Ian Brooker
56:04was Lord
56:04Goldhooper,
56:05Tom George,
56:06Nick,
56:07Claire Corbett,
56:08Emily and
56:08Tracey and
56:10Jasmine Hyde,
56:11Catherine and
56:11Felicity.
56:13Jack was
56:14played by
56:14Thomas Arnold,
56:16Philip by
56:16Alex Trinder
56:17and Roger
56:18by Martin
56:19Reid.
56:20Other parts
56:20were played
56:21by members
56:21of the company.
56:22The Wyndham
56:24Case was
56:25dramatised
56:25for radio
56:26by Neville
56:27Teller
56:27and directed
56:28in Birmingham
56:29by Peter
56:30Leslie Wilde.
56:31and
56:33the
56:33and
56:35Veritas
56:35and
56:36others
56:36are
56:37in the
56:37way.
56:37.
56:38The Wyndham
56:39of the
56:39Earth
56:39and
56:40The Wyndham
56:40of the
56:41Earth
56:41and
56:42Earth
56:43and
56:44others
56:44are
56:44in the
56:44area.
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