Well-known knitting patterns, certainly suitable for a young audience, but long-winded

The first episode of a new series is always something special. They are straight, closer to the audience the characters and the concept. In speaker selection you obviously wanted to avoid any risk, according to high-level reads the list of speakers: a lot of well-known and established actors and radio speakers are represented here. The two main characters for many years, you already know from the series "Famous Five", which already roughly the substantive framework for this first episode is staked. For my taste, the present story but true again at a slightly younger audience than is the case with the five friends, because a real criminal case or really bad villains do not appear among the young detectives. Maybe you have to say "not yet".
The cast is no nakedness, and the production sounds expertly-managed. Only the fall season with 73 minutes out of the ordinary. Now I have absolutely no objection to long seasons, on the contrary. But the way in which it comes about here has, but wearied me something: the narrator (Rita Russek, I guess as an actress very much) is not only the individual scenes together. They also often come in the middle of a scene to use, which destroys the flow of action and excitement and atmosphere. Much could have been present to the listener in the form of scenic dialogues, the issue of the narrator instead says. This will cause the whole unfortunately sometimes the audiobook like from. And whether the intended target group even after 60 or 70 minutes in a position focused listening, I think is a bit dodgy. Less More would have been here, actually: a less common, but more concentrated use of the narrator to join the sole purpose to different scenes. And "run" the individual scenes without the narrator simply.