Agatha Christie

[Riklaa]

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre. Christie has been called — by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others — the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels. UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated individual author in the world with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her.

[Florida Writer]

Thank you, everyone, for your help. I've downloaded the shows.

[abby]

Thank you Charles for the clarification! I feel much better now!!!!! :)

[abby]

Hi! Just listened to "next to a dog' and it seems to end abruptly...does anyone have the complete audio??Thanks!

[Charles Rooke]

If it ends (seemingly abruptly) with "and he's ready to dig a nice little hole in the back garden" then it is complete.  That's how the published story ends.

[Robert Johnson]

Thanks to all the contributors for this wonderful series. I have read, watched, an listened to the Agatha Christie stories as long as I can remember and they are always interesting.

Again many thanks.

Robert Johnson

[Florida Writer]

Thank you so much for sharing. The first Agatha Christie I read 20 years ago was "Death on the Nile" and just loved it for so many reasons, especially Hercule Poirot. From then on, I couldn't find enough by Agatha Christie. I'm so pleased to be able to listen to i"Death on the Nile" again, thanks to you, something I haven't done for a very long time.

Patricia

[william warren]

Three Plays from the BBC Radio Light Programme.

Butter in a Lordly Dish

Butter in a Lordly Dish features Richard Williams as adulterous Sir Luke Enderby KC.

It contains one of Christie’s most gory murders as a victim is killed with a nail through the forehead. The recording includes the bloodcurdling scream of the victim as his killer laughs manically.

 

Cast:   

Sir Luke Enderby, K C.......Richard Williams

Julia Keene.......Cecile Chevreau

Lady Enderby (Marion).......Molly Rankin

Susan Warren.......Barbara Lott

Florrie.......Beryl Calder

Mrs Petter.......Elisabeth Maude

Hayward.......Janet Morrison

A railway porter.......Michael Turner

 

Produced by Martyn C. Webster (1948)

Murder in the Mews

Dramatised by Anthony Aspinall

Stars Hercule Poirot in an adaptation of a short story from 1955. The detective is trying to solve the murder of a woman shot on Bonfire Night, and the play had previously gone unnoticed due to it being mislabelled as Murder in the Men’s.

 

Cast:

Hercule Poirot.........Richard Williams

Chief Inspector Jupp.........Jack Melford

Jane Plenderleith.........Monica Grey

Detective-Sergeant Jameson.........Ronald Sidney

Charles Laverton-West.........Allan Cuthbertson

Major Henry Eustace.........William Fox

Doctor Brett.........Duncan McLntyre

Mrs Hogg.........Ella Milne

Freddie Hogg.........Ian Whittaker

 

Produced by David H. Godfrey (1955)

Personal Call

It is a personal call for James Brent-from Newton Abbot-from Fay. But that cannot be, for Fay is dead, as James should know.

 And yet it sounds like Fay......that is the mystery.

Cast:

 

James Brent.......Ivan Brandt

Pamela Brent.......Barbara Lott

Mrs Lamb.......Vivienne Chatterton

Fay.......Beatrice Bevan

Evan.......Michael Turner

Mary.......Eva Stuart

Mr Enderby.......James Thomason

Inspector Narracott.......George Hagan

  

Produced by David H. Godfrey (1955)

I have no idea where I came across these. Have looked to see if they have been posted before in the group but can find no trace. The bitrate for the purists is poor, but the recordings are in better condition than I am (1949). Enjoy.

 

https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArrWZcg2lV80hiwMtYNvrRJ91WQv

 

 

 

 

[David Knight]

Thank you!!! 

I've pretty much downloaded every piece of Christie that's been on Timespast in the years I've been using this brilliant place, and these are new to my collection! 

[semoshorts]

Thanks for sharing.

[abby]

Thank you!!