Early Belt And The Present by Richard Pitt and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. Story: Murder mystery set in India in 1709. A young servant, Early Belt, accompanies a group of superstitious English merchants as they transport a vast wagon train of goods to Delhi. The wagon train - known as The Present - is an incentive for the Indian Emperor to grant free trade throughout the land. As the convoy crawls across India a merchant is found murdered. Stories quickly spread of a sorceress locked inside an enchanted cabinet somewhere within the convoy. When a second merchant is killed the rumours turn to hysteria. It falls to Early Belt to solve the mystery. Cast: Early Belt.....JAMES ANTHONY PEARSON John Surman.............DAVID HAYMAN Dr Hamilton..........JOHN SHEDDEN Prof Peters ..............RALPH RIACH Merchant 1 ...........KENNY BLYTH Merchant 2...........BRIAN PETTIFER Merchant 3.........MARK MCDONNELL Emperor .............UMAR AHMED Beda Belt...........LUCY PATERSON Director: Bruce Young
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