"The Flanders Panel" : Painting hides truth—chess and murder entwine across time and canvas.

Classic Old Time Radio, Vintage radio shows, the Golden Age of radio, murder, mystery, drama, comedy, sci-fi, westerns. "The Flanders Panel" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, dramatized by Jonathan Holloway and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on September 3, 2001: Julia, a Madrid-based art restorer, discovers a cryptic Latin message—“Who killed the knight?”—hidden beneath a 15th-century Flemish painting of a chess game. As she investigates the centuries-old mystery, modern murders begin to echo the past. With help from a chess master and an antiques dealer, Julia must decode both the painting and the killer’s strategy before she becomes the next victim. A cerebral thriller where art, logic, and danger converge.