Julie Enfield Investigates
# Julie Enfield Investigates

Julie Enfield Investigates is a series of British radio dramas originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1994 and 1999. Written by Nick Fisher and starring Imelda Staunton as DSI Enfield, there were five stories: Terminus (1994), The Smithfield Murders (1995), The Net And The Canal (1996), The Leaves Of The Dead (1997) and Murder West One (1999).

The first four runs were serials of four or five 30 minute episodes. Murder West One consists of four self-contained 45-minute cases. As an initial one-off, Terminus didn't carry the 'Julie Enfield Investigates' prefix. Trademarks running through all the stories are a very dark, almost Gothic, sense of horror, and an unusual narrator (in the case of Terminus, the railway station in which the murders take place). The Smithfield Murders begins with an adapted quotation from Oliver Twist: "Filth and fat, and blood and foam. Unwashed unshaven squalid figures move to and fro, among the steam that rises from the reeking bodies, mingling with the fog that seemed to rest upon the chimney tops, hung heavily above." The series is occasionally repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

## Episode lists

| Series | Episode | Title | First broadcast |
| - | - | - | - |
| Terminus | 1 | Corpse | 11 August 1994 |
| Terminus | 2 | Busker | 18 August 1994 |
| Terminus | 3 | Playing Games | 25 August 1994 |
| Terminus | 4 | Fury | 1 September 1994 |
| Terminus | 5 | Clue | 8 September 1994 |
| The Smithfield Murders | 1 | Filth And Fat And Blood And Foam | 2 November 1995 |
| The Smithfield Murders | 2 | Blue Bummarees | 9 November 1995 |
| The Smithfield Murders | 3 | Chef's Special | 16 November 1995 |
| The Smithfield Murders | 4 | A Mushroom Diet | 23 November 1995 |
| The Smithfield Murders | 5 | A Passion For Hunting Something | 30 November 1995 |
| The Net And The Canal | 1 | Waking Up To Nessun Dorma | 16 May 1996 |
| The Net And The Canal | 2 | Communicating With The President | 23 May 1996 |
| The Net And The Canal | 3 | Tarantulas In Trojan Horses | 30 May 1996 |
| The Net And The Canal | 4 | Beyond The Firewall | 6 June 1996 |
| The Leaves Of The Dead | 1 | Proverbs And Punctures From Hell | 7 August 1997 |
| The Leaves Of The Dead | 2 | Stacks And Baps And Amulets | 14 August 1997 |
| The Leaves Of The Dead | 3 | Welcome To The Nightmare | 21 August 1997 |
| The Leaves Of The Dead | 4 | Pyramids In The Spider | 28 August 1997 |
| Murder West One | 1 | A Cure For Death | 4 May 1999 |
| Murder West One | 2 | The Art Of The Matter | 11 May 1999 |
| Murder West One | 3 | Five Star Killing | 18 May 1999 |
| Murder West One | 4 | Soho Espresso | 25 May 1999 |
