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... Symphony as he faced deaf ness. Co-starring Emma Fielding and Adrian Lukis, the play had the air of a worthy biopic. Agatha Christie may have been a terrible writer but, conjuror-like, the team behind radio's Poirot adaptations pull entertainment out ...
... Caspar (the redoubtable Michael Maloney). This was a glittering festive miniature. Where would the season be without Agatha Christie? At Bertram's Hotel (R4, Monday, December 25), June Whitfield's Miss Marple is ensconced in a West End hotel which had ...
... own early love life. There is always a place on radio for quality productions of vintage crime fiction, as versions of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple books have shown. Their adaptor, Michael Bakewell, has done an expert job on Dorothy L Sayers' Strong Poison ...
... should have an Eccles cake before his siesta or not. Three pieces of classic writ ing produced diverting dramas. I enjoyed Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (R4, Saturday, August 29) more than any of the others which have been directed ...
... subtly played by Tessa Peake- Jones, became more human and real once her lesbianism was addressed. AA Milne once wrote .an Agatha Christie-style murder story, so The Red House Mystery (R4, Saturday, September 2) was interesting for historical reasons. The cast ...
... June Whitfield brings a crisp sense of the non-geriatric to Miss Marple. We are inclined, in her hands, to believe that Agatha Christie's bloodhound spinster might really take an exotic holiday. A Caribbean Mystery (R4, from Thursday, October 30) might have ...
... the familiar col laboration of John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, Enyd Williams directing and Michael Bakewell dramatising Agatha Christie's After the Funeral (R4, Saturday August 28) is an anarchic form of time travel in its own right. RADIO REVIEW Man of ...
... expertise was apparent in the vivid characters. Women, meanwhile, were neatly delineated in terms of snobbishness in Agatha Christie's The Body In the Library (R4, Saturday, May 22). The corpse had hair which was unnaturally fair a tawdry figure ...
... his latest victim and skipping off down the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy. The Saturday Night Theatre pro duction of Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs (R4; Saturday, June 1 8) seemed to me darker than most of her output. There were manor house set tings ...
... (played here by Norman Rodway) to provide a commentary from the perspective of another era worked particularly well. If Agatha Christie's works can hardly be denned as classics, what is the enduring nature of her appeal? We have certain expectations about ...