The Road Murder this week on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

BBC Radio 7 has become BBC Radio 4 Extra; featured this week is Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher on the 1860 Road Murder. Also on the air: Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe in Bones and Silence. Go here for the schedule; episodes can generally be heard online for a week after broadcast.

This week on BBC Radio 7: Henning Mankell, P. D. James, Reginald Hill.

This week on BBC Radio 7: David Warner reads Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers; Cordelia Gray investigates in P. D. James's The Skull Beneath the Skin; and Andy Dalziel thinks a suicide was murder in Reginald Hill's Bones and Silence. Go here for the schedule or to listen.

Reginald Hill this week on BBC Radio 7.

Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe appear this week in Bones and Silence on BBC Radio 7. Go here for the schedule or to listen.

Happy birthday, Washington Irving; Reginald Hill.

Best known for penning "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and once captured by pirates, Washington Irving was born today in 1783 in New York City. Note to self: Do not adopt one Irving pseudonym— "Dietrich Knickerbocker." Distinctly uncatchy.


And Diamond Dagger recipient Reginald Hill, creator of Dalziel and Pascoe, turns 72 today. His latest works are Death Comes for the Fat Man and, coming in June, The Roar of the Butterflies (a Joe Sixsmith novel).