Punt PI
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| Genre | Factual, comedy |
|---|---|
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Host(s) | Steve Punt |
| Producer(s) | Laurence Grissell Sarah Bowen Neil George |
| Air dates | since 3 May 2008 |
| Website | BBC website |
Punt PI is a fact-based comedy radio series on BBC Radio 4 in which Steve Punt investigates mysteries in Britain.
Format[edit]
The series sees Punt investigate mysteries across the United Kingdom. Each episode is 30 minutes long and there are three or four episodes in each yearly series.
Episodes[edit]
- Series 1 (May 2008)
- A couple who found 400 false legs hidden under their floorboards
- Britain's Strategic steam reserve
- Numerous aeroplane crashes at Dark Peak in the Peak District
- Series 2 (June 2009)
- Adolf Hitler's plans for a headquarters in Balham, South West London, possibly at Du Cane Court
- Television licence detector vans
- The possibility of a real Manchurian Candidate
- Series 3 (September and October 2010)
- The phantom settlement of Argleton
- Nazi UFOs
- A possible recording of Queen Victoria's voice
- The curse of The Crying Boy
- Series 4 (September and December 2011)
- The murder of Hubert Chevis by poisoned partridge
- A death ray allegedly made by Harry Grindell Matthews
- A missing film about David Lloyd George
- The Battle of Watling Street
- Series 5 (September 2012)
- The arsenal of Kris Ruddjers
- The Charfield railway disaster
- The lost Roanoke Colony
- Series 6 (August 2013)
- The disappearance of William Cantelo
- The Hollinwell incident
- The murder of Charles Walton
- The killing of two bears in the Forest of Dean
- Series 7 (July and August 2014)
- The Mysterious Death of Flying Millionaire Alfred Loewenstein
- The 1971 Baker Street Bank Robbery
- The Case of the MP (Victor Grayson) Who Vanished
- Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
- Series 8 (August 2015)
- The Murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor
- The Case of the Missing Cezanne
- The Great Mull Air Mystery looking at mysterious death of hotel guest Peter Gibbs