# Serial celebrating vintage thrillers
**URL:** https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304
**Category:** Spies, Spoofs & Spinoffs
**Created:** [May 18, 2019, 8:47am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304 "2019-05-18T08:47:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@DanversNettlefold](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/DanversNettlefold)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2019, 8:47am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304/1 "2019-05-18T08:47:50Z")
Good morning all,
It occurred to me that fellow members of this esteemed forum might be amused to hear of a current project influenced by the works of those vintage British thriller writers - Dennis Wheatley, Dornford Yates, Eric Ambler, et al – said to have inspired 007’s creator.
(Early Hitchcock films and Captain WE Johns’ **Biggles** adventures might be added to the above list of reference points. And for those among you with long memories of forum topics past, the old Orson Welles/_Moonraker_ article would be another.)
So without further preamble - for anyone who may be all interested, a (rather lengthy) trailer/promo video for the project can be viewed here:
Kind regards,
Danvers Nettlefold
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### Author:  [@BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/BondFan)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304/2 "2019-05-19T00:05:12Z")
I’m a big fan of British vintage thrillers. So, just to be clear, this will be a radio drama set in 1947? Could you give us more information? Like a longer synopsis, release date etc.
Best of luck with it!
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### Author:  [@DanversNettlefold](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/DanversNettlefold)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304/3 "2019-05-19T16:47:54Z")
Many thanks for your interest, BondFan.
Yes, **Filthy ’47** is indeed a four-part audio serial. No fixed release date as yet, although the voice work has been recorded and the project is currently in post-production.
Synopsis:
_England, 1947. Former Land Girls Joyce and Kay scrape a meagre living as a cover artist and model for lurid paperbacks. While painter Kay prefers the quiet life, the tall and ebullient Joyce still resents being turned down for wartime espionage work on account of her height._
_However, Joyce belatedly gets her chance to “do her bit” when, together with two new chums, pilot turned pulp author Peter West and his old comrade Flight Sergeant Byron Bayley, she and Kay stumble upon a plot to plunge the world back into war._
_Fate soon brings the foursome to the centre of this Wodehousian web of intrigue, Thrapsley Hall. In their remote gothic edifice, disgruntled aristos Sir Reginald and Lady Muriel Thrapsley hold court to a motley crew of conspirators: Murchison, a shadowy American wheeler-dealer; Kessler, a fugitive Nazi; and ribald radio comedian Jehosophat Jenks, accompanied by his support act, all-female ukelele trio The Dinky-Don’ts. Also along for the ride are a dashing Polish army captain, Kay’s long-lost brother Harold and Loretta Duquesne, a ditzy New York adventuress._
_Not everyone, though, is who or what they seem._
_Can Joyce and her friends gain the upper hand when confronted with a lethal cocktail of mischief mixed from ingredients including a secret nerve gas formula, a coffin full of guns, a primitive video disc whose contents would shock the world, and one woman’s fanatical thirst for revenge?_
Two excerpts:
(Spot the 007 reference in the latter…)
Kind regards,
Danvers Nettlefold
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### Author:  [@DanversNettlefold](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/DanversNettlefold)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 7:38am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304/4 "2019-05-20T07:38:59Z")
Morning all,
The faulty links in the above posts should now be fixed.
Kind regards,
Danvers Nettlefold
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### Author:  [@DanversNettlefold](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/DanversNettlefold)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304/5 "2020-01-24T17:07:54Z")
Hello all,
Just a quick progress report on the audio serial, for anyone who may be interested. Post-production is almost complete and a new 2-minute animated video trailer can be viewed here:
[Filthy '47: 2-minute trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5igkxJKNTpI)
DN
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### Author:  [@DanversNettlefold](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/DanversNettlefold)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304/6 "2020-04-22T07:07:15Z")
Hello all, hope you’re keeping well in these strange times.
For anyone who may be interested, Episode One of the vintage pulp-style four-part audio serial FILTHY '47 can now be heard for free at:
[Filthy '47 - Episode One](https://youtu.be/hEFb08xWAM4)
DN
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### Author:  [@DanversNettlefold](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/DanversNettlefold)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304/7 "2020-05-07T20:47:50Z")
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### Author:  [@DanversNettlefold](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/DanversNettlefold)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2021, 7:47am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/serial-celebrating-vintage-thrillers/1304/8 "2021-10-01T07:47:56Z")
Just a cordial reminder that all four parts of _Filthy '47_ can be downloaded for free from various podcast platforms: [https://pod.link/1517274322](https://pod.link/1517274322)
