The Recall Man

Seven gripping dramas featuring forensic psychologist and memory expert Dr Joe Aston

Returning to his home town of Middlesborough on a six-month attachment to the Teesside police, criminal psychologist Joe Aston is called in for seven unusual and baffling cases. As a specialist in the controversial field of 'recovered memory', his skills are crucial: only he can uncover the truth by persuading victims, witnesses and suspects to remember what they'd rather forget...

In Doctor Joe Aston Investigates, the 'recall man' tackles the only suspect in a murder case: a scientist suspected of killing her boss.

Making Waves finds a confused diver claiming to have witnessed an old murder: can his memory be trusted?

In Over the Border, Aston probes a taxi driver who may be the sole witness to a gangland killing, but claims to remember nothing.

In Stepping Out, he finds his position under threat when rival psychologist Beth Webster is hired to investigate a spate of attacks on young women.

Taken by Surprise sees Aston resorting to unorthodox methods to secure an identification of the main suspect in a kidnapping case.

In Can't See for Looking, a witness to an arson attack swears she saw a rhinoceros throwing a petrol bomb: can Aston discover what she really saw?

Finally, in Best Forgotten, the forensic psychologist uncovers fresh information about an unsolved robbery from 1952 - but the newfound facts have some unwelcome implications...

Written by David Napthine and Steven Chambers, these gripping dramas star Jeremy Swift as Dr Joe Aston, with Paul Brennen as DC Patten, Janet Dibley as DI Reynolds and Andrew Harrison as DC Hamilton.


Credits
Written by David Napthine and Steven Chambers
Produced and directed by Toby Swift and Mary Peate

Starring Jeremy Swift as Dr Joe Aston

Doctor Joe Aston Investigates
Grace Hayle - Rosie Cavaliero
Dl Karen Dennis - Carolyn Pickles
Tom Aston - Colin MacLachlan
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DC Talbot - Sue Scott Davison
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 7 December 2001

Making Waves
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
Defence Counsel - Andrew Harrison
George - James Gaddas
Jane - Elizabeth Carling
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 31 October 2003

Over the Border
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Tommy - Vincent Friell
DC Hamilton - Andrew Harrison
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 7 November 2003

Stepping Out
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Beth - Tessa Peake-Jones
Linda - Sue Scott Davison
Nicola - Suzanne Heathcote
DC Hamilton - Andrew Harrison
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 14 November 2003

Taken by Surprise
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Bill - Andrew Dunn
Tony - Gerard McDermott
Moira - Susan Jameson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 26 September 2005

Can't See for Looking
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Donna - Sharon Percy
Billy - Michael Imerson
Alison - Colleen Prendergast
Steve - Wayne Foskett
Asif - Shiv Grewal
Mickey - Michael Hodgson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3 October 2005

Best Forgotten
DC Patten - Paul Brennen
DI Reynolds - Janet Dibley
Tom - Colin MacLachlan
Frankie - Maurice Roëves
Sue - Sheila Tait
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 10 October 2005

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