Asmr with the classics

Trapped in an unhappy marriage and provoked by her husband's obsession with her younger sister, Nan disappears from the family home for a night – with devastating consequences. A series of dramatic revelations will lead either to divorce or reconciliation - but the outcome depends on whether Nan's sister will lie to protect her.

Agatha Christie's extraordinary early play, which predates her famous stage thrillers, lay unread in her family's archives until it was discovered by theatre producer Julius Green. Seemingly written in the mid-1920s, during the breakdown of Christie's first marriage, The Lie is an intensely personal piece of writing - a hard-hitting domestic drama which bears many of the hallmarks of her later work for the theatre, and which offers a unique insight into her complex emotional response to events in her own life at the time.

"In every life there comes a moment, one supreme and all-powerful moment, when we hold our fate in our hands, to decide our entire life for good or evil."

Cast:

Nan Gregg (the wife) - SARAH MOWAT

Nell Reeves (her sister) - CHLOE NEWSOME

John Gregg (the husband) - BEN NEALON

Hannah Reeves (the mother) - ALISON SKILBECK

Mrs Endicott (the grandmother) - TINA GRAY

Jim Hayward (The suitor) - MIKE EVANS

The drama was adapted for radio from Agatha Christie's stage play by Martin Lewton and Julius Green.

Director - JULIUS GREEN

Assistant Director - MARTIN LEWTON

Producer - IAIN MACKNESS

Executive Producer - ASHLEY BYRNE

The music was composed by REBECCA APPLIN

A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4 by arrangement with The Agatha Christie Archive Trust 

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The first series of Mark Tavener's comedy-drama murder series set in a fictional Cambridge college in crisis against a background of satirical references to television journalism, politics, government bureaucracy and academic in-fighting.

When a former member of the college who's become a notorious TV popularizer of history dies after having dined at the college, the college's Master suspects foul play and invites Simon Harrison, a former brilliant student at the college but now a disenchanted government bureaucrat, to investigate the suspicious death. However, the list of suspects gets longer and longer, and things get even more complicated when the Master himself  dies under suspicious circumstances ...

Gilbert Devlin ... Geoffrey Palmer

Simon Harrison ... Samuel West

Zoe ... Sharon Small

Bernard ... Jonathan Coy

The Dean of the College ... Michael Maloney

Patricia ... Rebecca Front

The Master of the College ... Hugh Dickson

Peter Devanti/John/Reuben ... Nicholas Boulton

Caroline ... Emily Wachter

Alice ... Beth Chalmers

Richard ... Jason Chan

Leonard ... Stephen Hogan

Mark ... Laurence Howarth

Joe ... Martin Hyder

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The Blackburn Files (Series 1) - by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby

Stephen J Blackburn is an ex-pitman turned private investigator.

Five clever and quick-witted comic drama cases for the ex-pitman turned investigator and his government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South Yorkshire town that's seen better days.

Directed for BBC North East by Dave Sheasby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1989

CAST

Stephen J Blackburn  . . .  Finetime Fontayne

Tracey                        . . .  Judy Flynn

With:

Rita May

Vanessa Rosenthal  

Lorraine Peters

Lucia Laratonda

Robin Polley

Gerry Kersey

Lorraine Peters

Norman Mills

James Tomlinson

Christine Cox

Peter Bell

John Graham Davies

Ray Ashcroft

Bill Rodgers

Rita May

Vanessa Rosenthal

Anne Rye

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Norman Birkett and the Case of the Coleford Poisoner - the celebrated advocate defends a woman accused of murdering her husband with arsenic

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When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found

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Starring Sybil Thorndike and Athene Seyler. The celebrated comedy by Joseph Kesselring

With Prunella Scales, Dinsdale Landen and Desmond Walter-Ellis.

Scene: The living-room of the Brewster home in Brooklyn

Time: The present

Contributors

Writer: Joseph Kesselring

The celebrated comedy by Joseph Kesselring

Starring Sybil Thorndike and Athene Seyler.

With Prunella Scales, Dinsdale Landen and Desmond Walter-Ellis.

Scene: The living-room of the Brewster home in Brooklyn

Time: The present

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Synopsis

Spinster sleuth Miss Marple probes a woman's terrifying flashbacks to trap a murderer.

Cast

June Whitfield as Miss Marple

Julian Glover as Dr Kennedy

Beth Chalmers as Gwenda Reed

Carl Prekopp as Giles Reed

Hilda Schroder as Mrs Hengrave

Carolyn Pickles as Aunt Alison and Mrs Erskine

Joan Littlewood as Edith

Derek Waring as Richard Erskine

Ioan Meredith as Walter Fane

Michael N Harbour as Jackie Afflick

Ewan Bailey as Inspector Last

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Drama

Murder on the Orient Express

Michael Bakewell’s five-part dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 murder mystery, with an all-star cast

1: A passenger is destined not to complete the journey.

Cast in order of appearance:

Miss Debenham: Francesca Annis

Taurus Express Guard: Vic Tablian

Hercule Poirot: John Moffatt

The Hotel Clerk: Kevork Malikyan

Monsieur Bouc: Andre Maranne

Mr Ratchett: Joss Ackland

MacQueen: James Telfer

Pierre Michel: Frank Windsor

Mrs Hubbard: Sylvia Syms

Miss Ohlsson: Kate Binchy

Foscarelli: Frank Coda

Hardman: John Church

Masterman: Desmond Llewelyn

Princess Dragomiroff: Sian Phillips

Colonel Arbuthnot: Stephen Hodson

Count Andrenyi: David Thorpe

Countess Andrenyi: Siriol Jenkins

Dr Constantine: Peter Polycarpou

Fraulein Schmidt: Linda Polan

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Drama

Murder on the Orient Express

Michael Bakewell’s five-part dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 murder mystery, with an all-star cast

1: A passenger is destined not to complete the journey.

Cast in order of appearance:

Miss Debenham: Francesca Annis

Taurus Express Guard: Vic Tablian

Hercule Poirot: John Moffatt

The Hotel Clerk: Kevork Malikyan

Monsieur Bouc: Andre Maranne

Mr Ratchett: Joss Ackland

MacQueen: James Telfer

Pierre Michel: Frank Windsor

Mrs Hubbard: Sylvia Syms

Miss Ohlsson: Kate Binchy

Foscarelli: Frank Coda

Hardman: John Church

Masterman: Desmond Llewelyn

Princess Dragomiroff: Sian Phillips

Colonel Arbuthnot: Stephen Hodson

Count Andrenyi: David Thorpe

Countess Andrenyi: Siriol Jenkins

Dr Constantine: Peter Polycarpou

Fraulein Schmidt: Linda Polan

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Drama

Murder on the Orient Express

Michael Bakewell’s five-part dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 murder mystery, with an all-star cast

1: A passenger is destined not to complete the journey.

Cast in order of appearance:

Miss Debenham: Francesca Annis

Taurus Express Guard: Vic Tablian

Hercule Poirot: John Moffatt

The Hotel Clerk: Kevork Malikyan

Monsieur Bouc: Andre Maranne

Mr Ratchett: Joss Ackland

MacQueen: James Telfer

Pierre Michel: Frank Windsor

Mrs Hubbard: Sylvia Syms

Miss Ohlsson: Kate Binchy

Foscarelli: Frank Coda

Hardman: John Church

Masterman: Desmond Llewelyn

Princess Dragomiroff: Sian Phillips

Colonel Arbuthnot: Stephen Hodson

Count Andrenyi: David Thorpe

Countess Andrenyi: Siriol Jenkins

Dr Constantine: Peter Polycarpou

Fraulein Schmidt: Linda Polan

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