Boz Temple Morris & Kris Hollington Scream

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A crime caper telling the extraordinary but true story behind the theft of Edvard Munch's expressionist masterpiece from an Oslo museum in 2004. Oslo police are closing in on the criminal mastermind behind an audacious cash robbery when two incompetent criminals burst into the Munch Museum and ask for directions to Norway's most famous painting. Amazingly, they emerge with two paintings, The Scream and The Madonna. So begins a high profile and often bizarre game of cat and mouse as police attempt to track down these national treasures and arrest those behind the robbery. Could it be that the criminal mastermind, David Toska, has commissioned the theft of the Scream simply to divert police resources from the investigation into his cash robbery? So believes Iver Steinback, Norway's no 1 detective. Even after Toska's arrest the police seem no closer to recovering the painting but police develop a bizarre negotiating tactic after Toska develops a voracious appetite for - chocolate. Scream is made in collaboration with investigative journalist Kris Hollington and recorded entirely on location in Olso with Norway's leading actors. Cast:
Kjell ....... Christian Rubeck 
Inspector Steinbeck ....... Jargen Langhelle
 Thomson ....... Mats Eldaen 
Siegried ........ Henrik Horge
 Petter ........ Stig-Henrik Hoff
 Karl ....... Aksel Hennie
 Elina ....... Ingrid Bolsa Berdal 
Paal Enger and David Toska ....... Eric Madsen Other parts were played by:
Siri Ingul, Catherine Gram, Lars Engebretsen,
Endre Haukland, Josefine Coward, Bettina Fleischer and Axel Aubert. Sound and music by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques. Director: Boz Temple-Morris
A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama: Scream First broadcast: Fri 6th Apr 2012, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.