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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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pink powder puff and a spotted bed sheet. A tan shoe and a rain slicker. Each week, Orson Welles walks through the museum, picks up one of these objects and tells its murderous horrific story. After each dramatization, Orson Welles ends the show as he did in Mercury Theater of the Air, "obediently yours.Black Museum is based on Scotland Yard's Black Museum (aka Crime Museum) in London, where crime artifacts are stored. This is the largest and oldest museum of its type. Although it is not open to the public, we can get a glimpse of what lays inside through Black Museum. Each program is based on a real crime story and object from the museum

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Murder in the Mews

Sun 20th Mar 1955, 15:30 on Light Programme

Dramatised for radio by Anthony Aspinall from the story by Agatha Christie.

Produced by David H. Godfrey in the London Studios of the BBC.

 

Freddie Hogg: Ian Whittaker

Chief Inspector Japp: Jack Melford

Hercule Poirot: Richard Williams

Detective-Sergeant Jameson: Ronald Sidney

Doctor Brett: Duncan McIntyre

Jane Plenderleith: Monica Grey

Mrs Hogg: Ella Milne

Charles Laverton-West: Allan Cuthbertson

Major Henry Eustace: William Fox

While her flatmate is away for the weekend, Barbara commits suicide. However Inspector Japp is sufficiently concerned about this case to call for the assistance of Hercule Poirot.  

Japp asks Poirot to join him at a house in Bardsley Garden Mews where a Mrs Barbara Allen shot herself the previous evening – Guy Fawkes Night – the moment of death being disguised by the noise of fireworks.

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Hercule Poirot

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The Man Who Would Be King". An excellent story about two chaps who determined that nothing would stop them until they wore the crown of a savage tribe in India. The script was previously used on "Escape" on July 7, 1947, and subsequently on "Suspense" on May 31, 1959.

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Towards Zero is vintage Agatha Christie in that it involves murder in an English Country House, with a varied assortment of suspects.

The title is very apt, because we discover the factors that result in these people being in one particular place at ‘Zero Hour’. Namely, the moment of the murder.

We meet most of the protagonists before they arrive at the fatal spot.

The detective who handles and ultimately solves the case, is our old friend Superintendent Battle. This was his last appearance and we get to know a little of his private life, for instance we learn that he has a wife and no less than five children!

This is a definite favourite Agatha Christie Novel of mine. It’s beautifully crafted and we are told right from the start that we are being manipulated. We see the murderer plotting the whole diabolical scheme (without of course, being aware of who the murderer is.)

'This mind had only one thought and one purpose – the destruction of another human being…the scheme was being worked out meticulously on paper…every eventuality, every possibility was being taken into account….the main lines were clear and had been closely tested. The time, the place, the method, the victim! Yes, everything planned everyone’s reaction foretold and allowed for…'

Towards Zero is also vintage Agatha Christie as she uses that ‘sleight of hand’ that I refer to elsewhere on this website.

As Rolf Harris would say ‘do you know what it is yet?’

Do read it if you haven’t already done so – it’s a splendid example of Dame Agatha Christie's wonderfully devious mind.

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21 year old Rosemary dies at her birthday party after drinking from a glass of cyanide-laced champagne. The small group of friends and family who were present struggle to understand - was it suicide, or could one of them possibly have murdered her? An ex-lover, a younger sister who stood to inherit, a jealous husband? It seems almost all the guests had a motive.

IRIS ..... Naomi Frederick

ROSEMARY ..... Jasmine Hyde

GEORGE ..... Peter Wight

ANTHONY ..... Colin Tierney

RUTH ..... Amanda Drew

STEPHEN ..... James Lailey

SANDRA ..... Tracy Wiles

VICTOR ..... Simon Bubb

directed by Mary Peate.

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Lonesome and alone while traveling threw Europe Alfred parish encounters a retired US army officer who encourages him to see Russia without a passport. Starring : Robert Morse,Robert Dryden An adaption of a story by Mark Twain

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Perry Mason is a radio crime serial based on the novels of Erle Stanley Gardner. Broadcast weekdays on CBS Radio from 1943 to 1955, the series was adapted into The Edge of Night which ran on television for an additional 30 years.

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