Edward Boyd (writer)

Edward Boyd ( born May 11, 1916 in Stevenston, Ayrshire, † December 17, 1989 in Glasgow ) was a Scottish crime writer.

He wrote many series for the BBC in Scotland and Granada Television as well as numerous radio plays for radio. 1971 Boyd was awarded the prize of the " Writers' Guild " for the best radio series.

His main crime radio plays - all miniseries of linguistically sophisticated quality:

In Germany the numbers marked with * radio plays of Hubert von Bechtolsheim and Marianne de Barde were transferred to German and from then South-West radio (today SWR ) staged as radio plays.

Badgers in the Owl light or the search of Peter Talion

On behalf of all his radio plays a few words most famous radio play by Edward Boyd, a three-part series of SWF.

Peter Talion infiltrates in a Scottish rural commune that lives in the old Balphinn House. He is on the hunt for the murderer of his brother, he witnessed how the alternative housing community must defend themselves against the wrath applied villagers. But the search evolves quite differently than Peter had imagined.

His particular tension relates the crime first, from the incisive voice of Christian Brückner, who speaks the narrative title character with all the vocal nuances. Secondly, all spoken scenes with an acoustic guitar music is stored, which with its constant variations of only a few chords for hypnotic atmosphere and rising tension.

Directed by Heiner Schmidt, the spokesman of the main characters were Christian Brückner, Manfred Zapatka, Friedhelm Scheele, Dieter Zimmer, Heidemarie Rohweder, Jochen Busse, Lana Loeber, Ilka Höttger, Karin Schroeder, Wolfgang Büttner, Antje Hagen, Manfred Georg Herrmann, Hans Rohr, Wolfgang Reinsch, Jürgen Andreas, Ernst Jacobi.