Punt PI

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

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Genre
30 minutes
United Kingdom
English
BBC Radio 4
Steve Punt
Laurence GrissellSarah BowenNeil George
3 May 2008 –23 September 2017
10
35
BBC website

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

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 mysterious individual identified only as '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.

  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

  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

  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

  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

  15. The arsenal of Kris Ruddjers

  16. The Charfield railway disaster

  17. The lost Roanoke Colony

  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

  22. The Mysterious Death of Flying Millionaire Alfred Loewenstein

  23. The 1971 Baker Street Bank Robbery

  24. The Case of the MP (Victor Grayson) Who Vanished

  25. Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?

  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

  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

  32. Lost Nukes

  33. Treasure in the Piano

  34. Missing Priest

  35. Taking the Pissoir?