Agatha Christie: BBC Audiobooks

A triple bill of archive BBC radio dramas, believed lost for over half a century and only recently rediscovered. Butter in a Lordly Dish, written specially for radio in 1948, features Richard Williams as Sir Luke Enderby KC, whose infidelities lead him into trouble when he goes to meet his latest flame. Williams also stars as Hercule Poirot in Murder in the Mews, a 1955 adaptation of a short story. A young woman is found dead in her flat, the day after Guy Fawkes night. Did she die by her own hand, or someone else's? In Personal Call, also written specially for radio by Agatha Christie, a disturbing telephone call from a woman named Fay has consequences for both Richard Brent and his wife Pam. This 1960 production stars Ivan Brandt and Barbara Lott.y Dish Clip

Agatha Christie: The Lost Plays:  Butter in a Lordly Dish (Audio Extract)

A triple bill of archive BBC radio dramas, believed lost for over half a century and only recently rediscovered. Butter in a Lordly Dish, written specially for radio in 1948, features Richard Williams as Sir Luke Enderby KC, whose infidelities lead him into trouble when he goes to meet his latest flame. Williams also stars as Hercule Poirot in Murder in the Mews, a 1955 adaptation of a short story. A young woman is found dead in her flat, the day after Guy Fawkes night. Did she die by her own hand, or someone else's? In Personal Call, also written specially for radio by Agatha Christie, a disturbing telephone call from a woman named Fay has consequences for both Richard Brent and his wife Pam. This 1960 production stars Ivan Brandt and Barbara Lott.

Agatha Christie: The Lost Plays: Personal Call (Audio Extract)

This is a clip from 4:50 From Paddington  and features Janet Maw ad Emma Crackenthorpe. When Elspeth McGillicuddy is the only witness to a brutal murder - for which not even a body is in evidence - it takes all of Miss Marple s remarkable ingenuity to discover the key to a secret which lies buried within a decaying country house.
 
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Agatha Christie: Marple's Casebook - 4.50 From Paddington

This clip is from At Bertram’s Hotel and features Frederick Jaeger as Chief Inspector Davy, Jillie Meers as Miss Gorringe, David Timson as Inspector Campbell and Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr Humfries. Miss Marple is being treated to a holiday at the dignified and respectable Bertram’s Hotel in Mayfair. But something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer - why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate eminently respectable people staying there?

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Agatha Christie: Marple's Casebook - At Bertram's Hotel

This clip is from A Pocketful of Rye and features June Whitfield as Miss Marple and Nicky Henson as Inspector Neele. A Pocket Full of Rye With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financier, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangest cases of her life.

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Agatha Christie: Marple's Casebook - A Pocketful Of Rye

This clip is from Tape-Measure Murder and features June Whitfield as Miss Marple, Rosie Cavaliero as Bunch, and Jessica Turner as Miss Hartnell. When Mrs Sparrow is murdered in St Mary Mead, the village gossips agree that her husband must have killed her  - until Miss Marple is called as an alibi….

Agatha Christie:  Miss Marple's Final Cases - Tape Measure Murder

This clip is from The Case of the Perfect Maid and features June Whitfield as Miss Marple and Jessica Turner as Miss Hartnell. Miss Marple investigates the problem of a lady’s maid who has been mysteriously sacked, whilst also helping her crime writer nephew Raymond West with writer’s block.
 

Agatha Christie: Miss Marple's Final Cases - The Case Of The Perfect Maid

This clip is from Sanctuary and features June Whitfield as Miss Marple and Rosie Cavaliero as Bunch. Miss Marple and her god-daughter Bunch are horrified when they discover a dying man in the local church. Can Miss Marple deduce his identity – and his killer from his last wrods?
 

Agatha Christie: Miss Marple's Final Cases - Sanctuary

A fascinating collection of archive radio programmes focusing on the life and work of crime fiction's grande dame and featuring Agatha Christie in her own words. 

Dame Agatha Christie published 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections in her lifetime, but to the public she remained an enigmatic figure. This quartet of BBC radio programmes looks at the woman behind the books, and explores the career of one of Britain's most famous mystery writers. 

Agatha Christie in Close-Up (1955) tells the story of the celebrated author, with contributions from Richard Attenborough, Allen Lane, Margaret Lockwood and Peter Saunders; while in The Mysterious Dame Agatha (1975), Cliff Michelmore presents an 85th birthday tribute with Peter Saunders, Nigel Stock and Julian Symons. Women of Mystery: Queen of Crime (1982) sees Jessica Mann investigating women crime writers and Christie in particular; and in Agatha Christie: Speaking Her Own Words (2015), we hear specially selected excerpts from the initial, dictated version of Christie's autobiography. Recorded in 1965, these unedited personal tapes were discovered by her grandson Matthew Prichard, who introduces the programme. 

Featuring the voices of fellow writers, friends, family and the Queen of Crime herself, this wide-ranging collection sheds new light on the bestselling novelist of all time. Duration: 2 hours approx.

Agatha Christie Close Up: BBC Archive Recordings (audiobook extract)

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