Asmr with the classics

Spinster sleuth Jane Marple's stay in London proves more eventful than planned.

Published in 1965, Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield.

Dramatised in five-parts by Michael Bakewell.

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.

CAST

Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield

Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips

Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham

Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers

Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley

Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead

Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon

Raymond West ...... Andrew Branch

Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley

Lady Selina Hazy ...... Margaret Courtenay

Mrs Carpenter ...... Patience Tomlinson

Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles

Henry ...... Garard Green

Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir

Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw

Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright

Mr Bollard ...... David Collings

Miss Mottley ...... Sandra James Young

Egerton ...... Alan Rowe

Mrs McCrea ...... Zulema Dene

Air Terminal Hostess ...... Louisa Seddon

Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson

Archdeacon Simmons ...... Preston Lockwood

Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger

Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen

Mrs Wheeling ...... Tessa Worsley

Sergeant Waddell ...... Ross Livingstone

Miss McCrea ...... Zulema Dene

Hoffman ...... Freddie Jones

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Whose Body? - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

A body is found and a body is lost.

But whose body has appeared in a bath in Battersea and where is the body a famous financier Sir Reuben Levy who went to bed one night in his flat in Park Lane and simply disappeared?

Debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.  

Starring Gary Bond as the suave sleuth.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War. He features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers.

Whose Body? was first published in 1923.  

Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.

Lord Peter Wimsey       ……    Gary Bond

Bunter                            ……    John Cater

Mr Parker                      ……    Roger Rowland

Sir Julian Freke             ……    Michael Graham Cox

Duchess of Denver        ……    Veda Warwick

Mr Thipps                      ……    Kim Durham

John P Milligan             ……    Terry Molloy

Mr Crimplesham           ……    Christopher Benjamin

Sir Reuben Levy           ……    Geoff Serle

Freddie Arbuthnot         ……    Tim Brierley

Gladys Horrocks           ……    Charlotte Martin

Mr Piggot                      ……    Alex Jones

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Vanessa Whitburn.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 

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Have His Carcase - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

When crime author Harriet Vane finds a body, debonair sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers.

Have His Carcase was first published in 1932.

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1981.

Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton.

CAST:

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael

Harriet Vane …. Maria Aitken

Inspector Umpelty …. Nigel Stock

Haviland Martin …. Warren Clarke

Mrs. Weldon …. Isabel Dean

Julian Perkins …. Richard O'Callaghan

Saunders …. John Webb

Mr. Hearn …. Alexander John

Narrator …. John Westbrook

Antoine …. Malcolm Ingram

Salcombe Hardy …. Patrick Newell

Doris …. Carole Harrison

Charis …. Deirdre Costello

Henry Weldon …. Warren Clarke

Mrs. Weldon …. Isabel Dean

Mrs. Le Franc …. Betty Marsden

Mr. Bright …. Norman Bird

Leila Garland …. Rosalind Ayres

Pollock …. Peter Tuddenham

Luis da Soto …. Haydn Wood

Blacksmith …. Ronald Herdman

Judd …. Spencer Banks

Nurse …. Judy Franklin

Jem Pollack …. Haydn Wood

Polwhistle …. Alan Dudley

Tom …. Andrew Secombe

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Murder Clinic, the WOR-Mutual series which brought you each week one exciting case; one member from the special branch of the worldâs great detectives. Each week on Murder Clinic another detective story from another well-known mystery writer was adapted for broadcast. Fans of the so-called Golden Age of Detection should certainly sit up and take notice at the veritable cornucopia of delights that were heard during the year and a few months that the program was on the air. Every week another story by an author such as Edgar Wallace, Ngaio Marsh, Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr), Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, G. K. Chesterton, Jacques Futrelle, Stuart Palmer, and (as we discovered) on and on.

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Murder Clinic, the WOR-Mutual series which brought you each week one exciting case; one member from the special branch of the worldâs great detectives. Each week on Murder Clinic another detective story from another well-known mystery writer was adapted for broadcast. Fans of the so-called Golden Age of Detection should certainly sit up and take notice at the veritable cornucopia of delights that were heard during the year and a few months that the program was on the air. Every week another story by an author such as Edgar Wallace, Ngaio Marsh, Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr), Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, G. K. Chesterton, Jacques Futrelle, Stuart Palmer, and (as we discovered) on and on.

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Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident – the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband and wife – shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it’s just as well that ‘old sins leave long shadows.'

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The Mystery of Agatha Christie [1984]

Now that Dr Janet Morgan's authorised biography is published, the puzzle of how and why a reserved, dignified upper-middle-class lady became "the undisputed queen of crime" is more or less solved. 

But the enigma of Agatha Christie's life and personality will continue to be as fascinating as her own ingenious murders.

Frances Donnelly follows the clues, with the aid of Dr Janet Morgan, Harry Keating, Christianna Brand and others.

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This psychological thriller concerns the murderous ambitions of a young adventurer, Michael. His dream is to build a magnificent house in the English countryside - but that requires money. Luckily he meets a beautiful heiress.

Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike, Lizzy Watts as Ellie, Sarah Stewart as Greta, Victoria Lennox as Mrs Lee, Chris Pavlo as Mr Constantine, John Rowe as Philpott, Joseph Tremain as Young Mike, Dan Starkey as Santonix and Thomas Brown-Lowe as Oscar.

Original music by Nicolai Abrahamsen.

Director: Sam Hoyle

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Eight mystery stories a co-production of CBC Radio and ZBS. The stories are rather congenial, like an Agatha Christie BBC mystery, a lot of fascinating and slightly eccentric characters, wonderful dialogue, an occasional body, with a gentle humor throughout.

The hero, Jean-Claude, is a young sous-chef living in Montréal. In the first episode, A Sweet Death, the police arrest his close friend, Georges-Luc (who is from Haiti), charging him with murder. Jean-Claude proceeds to investigate on his own. A sweet death indeed, for this episode deals with the making of chocolates, all sorts, and the descriptions are heavenly.

Each story deals with a different type of food. The writer, Don Druick, is a gourmet cook from Montréal; his descriptions of various dishes and their preparation are so vivid, so enticing, there are times it’s almost painful to listen without wanting to run out and stuff yourself.

Each story focuses on a different type of cuisine. A Sweet Death deals with not only chocolates, but all sorts of sweets (and some of those sweeties are deadly). The second story, Buzz Buzz, centers around various delectable insects (and the nasty competition between two teachers at a cooking school). In Fugu, there’s Japanese cuisine; in The Ghost of Miz B, it’s Jewish cooking. And there’s also a murder to solve in every story.

Since our own writer, M. Fulton, once worked at a radio station in Montréal, and has a fondness for that city and it’s night life, he suggested we record on location; in the sidewalk cafés, restaurants, the Métro, the cobbled streets of Vieux Montréal, wherever the scenes actually take place. The sound is wonderfully rich, especially hearing Montréal in the summer ... it’s visually stimulating, the descriptions are enticing, and the smells are exquisite.

Director-Bill Lane, Jean-Claude-Salvatore Migliore, Illustration-Greg Tucker, music-Tim Clark

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After the Funeral

By Agatha Christie

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell

Following the interment of Richard Abernethie, his sister Cora blurts out that he was surely murdered. The next day, she is found dead.

Starring John Moffat as Hercule Poirot. Frank Thornton as Mr Entwhistle, and John Baddeley as Inspector Morton.

Miss Gilchrist: Jennifer Piercey

Helen Abernethie: Tessa Worsley

Maud Abernethie: Jill Balcon

Timothy Abernethie: John Hartley

Susan Banks: Fritha Goodey

Gregory Banks: Trevor Rawlins

Rosamund Shane: Tilly Gaunt

Michael Shane: Tam Williams

George Crossfield: Ian Masters

Directed by Enyd Williams

The Saturday Play:

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