Punt PI


Punt PI is a fact-based comedy radio series on BBC Radio 4 in which Steve Punt investigates mysteries in Britain.

Format

Each episode is 30 minutes long and there are three or four episodes in each series.
Starting with series two, every episode starts with a ringing phone and then the answering machine of "Punt's Private Eye". A man named Tracy then speaks into the answering machine and asks Punt to investigate a mystery he has heard about.
All episodes follow a similar format of Steve Punt introducing the mystery, before heading off to speak to witnesses and experts, and investigating different theories and leads.

Episodes

Series 1 (May 2008)

  1. A couple who found 400 false legs hidden under their floorboards
  2. Britain's Strategic steam reserve
  3. Numerous aeroplane crashes at Dark Peak in the Peak District

    Series 2 (June 2009)

  4. Adolf Hitler's plans for a headquarters in Balham, South West London, possibly at Du Cane Court
  5. Television licence detector vans
  6. The possibility of a real Manchurian Candidate

    Series 3 (September and October 2010)

  7. The phantom settlement of Argleton
  8. Nazi UFOs
  9. A possible recording of Queen Victoria's voice
  10. The curse of The Crying Boy

    Series 4 (September and December 2011)

  11. The murder of Hubert Chevis by poisoned partridge
  12. A death ray allegedly made by Harry Grindell Matthews
  13. A missing film about David Lloyd George
  14. The Battle of Watling Street

    Series 5 (September 2012)

  15. The arsenal of Kris Ruddjers
  16. The Charfield railway disaster
  17. The lost Roanoke Colony

    Series 6 (August 2013)

  18. The disappearance of William Cantelo
  19. The Hollinwell incident
  20. The murder of Charles Walton
  21. The killing of two bears in the Forest of Dean

    Series 7 (July and August 2014)

  22. The Mysterious Death of Flying Millionaire Alfred Loewenstein
  23. The 1971 Baker Street Bank Robbery
  24. The Case of the MP Who Vanished
  25. Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?

    Series 8 (August 2015)

  26. The Murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor
  27. The Case of the Missing Cezanne
  28. The Great Mull Air Mystery looking at mysterious death of hotel guest Peter Gibbs

    Series 9 (July and August 2016)

  29. The Suspicious Death of Emile Zola
  30. The Reclusive Skeleton of Fingringhoe, exploring the disappearance of actress Constance Kent
  31. There's A Kind of Hum

    Series 10 (September 2017)

  32. Lost Nukes
  33. Treasure in the Piano
  34. Missing Priest
  35. Taking the Pissoir?