Kate Buffery has played tough-talking Detective Inspector Pat North in Trial and Retribution for five series. But she has fallen out with Miss La Plante and will not be appearing in the latest ...

Clearly, no one mentioned that to Kate Buffery, star of Lynda La Plante's cop drama Trial and Retribution, who refused to allow her character glam up and subsequently was written out of the series.

Starring Ronald Pickup and Kate Buffery. Vita Sackville-West's novel first published in 1961. Dramatised by Jill Hyem. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998. **** To nominate a programme ...