Hercule Poirot is one of the most fascinating and enduring characters in detective fiction. He made his debut in The Mysterious Affair At Styles and continued to appear in fiction for fifty-five years, with his last appearance coming in Curtain which was published in 1975.

Poirot is Belgian (not French as is often assumed by those who meet him for the first time.) He fled Belgium during the First World War and became a fixture in England, often providing aid to the British Government. Poirot is a striking character. He five foot two inches tall, immaculately dressed, obsessive compulsive,  brilliant, egotistical, and compassionate.

Poirot has been portrayed on the screen by many actors on the stage, the first being Charles Laughton.  On screen, he was portrayed by Austin Trevor, Albert Finney, and Peter Ustinov. In 1989, David Suchet took on the role and has so far portrayed Poirot in sixty-five programs over ITV, with five more films set to complete the series in 2012 and is viewed by most as the definitive Poirot.

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Hercule Poirot (pronounced in English [??kyl pwa?o]) is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters: he appeared in 39 novels and 50 short stories. Poirot has been portrayed on screen, for films and TV, by various actors including Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and, most recently, and famously, David Suchet. His character was based on two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans' Monsieur Poiret, a retired French police officer living in London. A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of Arthur Conan Doyle. In An Autobiography Christie admits that \"I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition a eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp.\"Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective a Inspector Hanaud of the French surete-who, first appearing in the 1910 novel \"At the Villa Rose,\" predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

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Gaudy Night - Dorothy L Sayers

Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back . . .

When she attends her Oxford reunion, known as the 'Gaudy,' at sedate Shrewsbury College, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters—including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. Harriet realises that she is not the only target of this murderous malice as she finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection—and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.

5 episodes adapted by Michael Bakewell, directed by Enyd Williams.

CAST:

Lord Peter Wimsey:  Ian  Carmichael

Harriet Vane:             Joanna David

Other Cast Members:

(Will post when I find the information)

First Broadcast: BBC Radio 7 on 18 June 2010

Episode 1

Posh sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey probes a poison-pen campaign at Oxford University.

Episode 2

After being victimised, Harriet Vane returns to her old college to find out who's behind the hate campaign.

Episode 3

Upper-crust sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey joins Harriet to help unravel the Oxford mystery.

Episode 4

Love, jealousy and revenge complicate matters as Harriet and Lord Peter Wimsey close in.

Episode 5

Questions galore for Lord Peter Wimsey - most about the case, but one very personal

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The novel by Dorothy L. Sayers dramatised for radio by David Geary.

With Hugh Burden as Lord Peter Wimsey and Clifford Norgate as Det-Insp Charles Parker.

PARKER: Look, two doctors examined that body - one with close knowledge of the deceased, the other entirely independent. They found nothing. WIMSEY: As would 99 doctors out of 100. The 100th might be looking for something the others weren't.

PARKER: But looking for what?

Clifford Norgate: Det-Insp Charles Parker

Dr Carr: John Samson

Bunter: William Eedle

Miss Climpson: Katherine Parr

Mrs Budge: Kathleen Helme

Nurse Phillimore: Kate Binchy

Sergeant Harvey: John Rowe

Mrs Forrest: Eva Haddon

Murbles: Lewis Stringer

Vera Featherstone:Gillie Gratham

Insp Rogers:mEdward Kelsey

PC Barton: Graham Allum

Producer: David H. Godfrey

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Conan Doyle's Strangest Case

Tony Mulholland's play tells the true story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's obsession with a miscarriage of justice. Doyle assumes the mantle of his famous creation Sherlock Holmes and sets out to solve the case.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Peter Jeffrey

Kathleen Moriarty: Frances Jeater

George Edalji: Kim Wall

Shapurji: Kaleem Janjua

Anson: Richard Avery

Campbell: Terry Pearson

Distumal: Terry Molloy

Vachell: Gerry Hinks

With: Roger Hume, Tina Gray, Simon Carter,

Daphne Neville, Alex Jones, Pat Quayle

And Sheila Kelley

Director: Rosemary Watts

Saturday-Night Theatre:

Sat 6th Jan 1996

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Hercule Poirot is a sleuthing Belgian detective, a cleverly intelligent and immodest man. This 1940s series is based on the Agatha Christie series written in the 1930s. Written by one of the most popular writers of all time (Christie is only surpassed in sales by the Bible and Shakespeare), Hercule is a first rate detective and drama series

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Hercule Poirot is a sleuthing Belgian detective, a cleverly intelligent and immodest man. This 1940s series is based on the Agatha Christie series written in the 1930s. Written by one of the most popular writers of all time (Christie is only surpassed in sales by the Bible and Shakespeare), Hercule is a first rate detective and drama series

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Hercule Poirot is a sleuthing Belgian detective, a cleverly intelligent and immodest man. This 1940s series is based on the Agatha Christie series written in the 1930s. Written by one of the most popular writers of all time (Christie is only surpassed in sales by the Bible and Shakespeare), Hercule is a first rate detective and drama series

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Hercule Poirot is a sleuthing Belgian detective, a cleverly intelligent and immodest man. This 1940s series is based on the Agatha Christie series written in the 1930s. Written by one of the most popular writers of all time (Christie is only surpassed in sales by the Bible and Shakespeare), Hercule is a first rate detective and drama series

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