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Dirty Bertie’s facing the shame of losing a dare with Know-All Nick and having to wear his pants to school, playing the part of the dog in the local amateur dramatic society’s production of Oliver! and taking Whiffer to Royston Rich’s birthday party, where Whiffer leaves a very unwelcome present ... Bertie drags a reluctant Whiffer to dog training classes, stink-bombs his sister’s sleepover and rebels against Miss Beansprout’s all-new healthy school dinners. More revolting stories about the world’s grubbiest trouble magnet.

Dirty Bertie is back for another helping of comic chaos! With ever-increasing madcap schemes and crazy capers, Bertie continues in his revolting ways. oin Bertie in Jackpot! as he wins the lottery (or thinks he does), cooks up a storm in the kitchen and finds himself face-to-face with a demon dolly! In Horror!, join Bertie as he sneaks into a scary film, meets a bad-tempered guard dog on his paper round and ruins a priceless work of art on a school trip!

Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas, and if it’s trouble you’re after, look no further - Bertie’s sure to be up to his neck in that.

A BBC Radio 4 crime drama about a Merseyside mum-turned-private eye. Single mum Rosie Monaghan is 39 and redundant. Wondering what to do with the rest of her life – and with two kids to support – she decides to start a new career as a private detective. In series 1 she begins her first investigation, involving a mystery client and a seemingly innocent death that no one else thinks is murder. But being a private eye proves trickier than she thought.