Punt PI Podcast
1) Taking the Pissoir?
Marcel Duchamp is considered one of the great artists of the 20th century, but was his greatest achievement - Fountain - a urinal bearing the signature R. Mutt, the work of someone else? The original...Show More
2) Missing Priest
One afternoon in July 1953 Father Henryk Borynski, a Polish priest living in Bradford, took a telephone call. His housekeeper heard him say "OK, I'll go". He put on his hat, and his coat and left. He ...Show More
3) Treasure in the Piano
A piano tuner discovers a hoard of gold coins carefully concealed inside a piano. Whoever hid it there is a mystery. Radio 4's very own Inspector Clouseau Steve Punt is on hand to piece together the c...Show More
4) Lost Nukes
Steve Punt returns as Radio 4's very own private detective. In this tenth anniversary edition, Steve's called in to investigate the unlikely disappearance of American and Russian nuclear weapons - wi...Show More
5) There's A Kind of Hum
What is it? The sounds generated by mating fish? The US government? Or even the evolution of humans to hear electromagnetic waves... Steve Punt, BBC Radio 4's Mulder and Scully combined, turns his an...Show More
6) The Reclusive Skeleton of Fingringhoe
Steve Punt continues his investigations as Radio 4's very own private detective. In 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, the reclusive actress Ada Constance Kent disappeared from the villa...Show More
7) The Suspicious Death of Emile Zola
Steve Punt returns as Radio 4's very own private detective. Punt travels to Paris to investigate the suspicious death of celebrated writer Émile Zola. Zola died in 1902 from carbon monoxide poisoning...Show More
8) The Great Mull Air Mystery
On Christmas Eve 1975, former Spitfire pilot Peter Gibbs took off from the unlit airfield on the Isle of Mull and never returned. It was a moonless night and having just finished dinner with his gir...Show More
9) The Case of the Missing Cezanne
Steve Punt turns Private Investigator and tries to crack the case of the missing Cezanne masterpiece 'Auvers Sur Oise'. The painting was stolen from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford whilst the city ce...Show More
10) The Murder of Hollywood Director William Desmond Taylor
Steve Punt returns with a brand new series of investigations - starting with the unsolved murder of major Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor in 1922. Taylor was one of Tinseltown's biggest nam...Show More