31/03/2026
After a bomb and a ransom note signed "Uncle Scrooge", Hamburg police are drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with a lone eccentric whose gadgetry keeps leaving them empty-handed.
Hamburg, 1992. A pipe-bomb goes off in a department store at one in the morning, and a ransom note arrives shortly after, demanding a million marks and signed "Uncle Scrooge". The police are baffled. The press are delighted. And a nation starts rooting for the wrong side.
A cat-and-mouse thriller based on an extraordinary true story, about a lone eccentric who seems to be running his criminal campaign straight from the pages of a Donald Duck comic book, and the police team who realise the only way to catch him is to make him feel understood.
Warm, witty and surprisingly tender, it might just be unlike any true-crime story you've heard before. Based on real events with imagined scenes.
Narrator . . . . . Clare Corbett
Funke . . . . . Blake Harrison
Daleki . . . . . Ben Crowe
Brockmann . . . . . Amaka Okafor
Springborn . . . . . John Macmillan
Blashke . . . . . Sam Swann
Weber . . . . . Sam Dale
Writer: Simon Scardifield
Sound design: Sharon Hughes
Technical producers: Keith Graham & Jenni Burnett
Casting Manager: Alex Curran
Production co-ordinator: Luke MacGregor
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
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