Sparkling Cyanide
by Agatha Christie
256K
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery.‘There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance.’Published in 1945, Sparkling Cyanide is all about remembrance. It begins with six characters recalling the horrific death of Rosemary Barton, a beautiful but shallow young heiress poisoned by a cyanide-spiked glass of champagne whilst celebrating her birthday at a smart London restaurant.Rosemary haunts all six characters, each of them a suspect, throughout the story – and it’s not until her killer is found and her ghost laid to rest that the group can move on, though they will never forget.With a distinguished cast including Peter Wight and Amanda Drew, this wonderfully entertaining production retains the thrill of Agatha Christie’s clever, compulsive story.
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Thanks for this one. A better encode than my previous copy.
Also while on the topic of the BBC throwing out or recording over copies, the radio play of Sherlock Holmes V Dracula which was broadcast in Dec 1981 became lost after the BBC managed to loose? their copy. It wasn't until 2006 that someone sent them a tape cassette recording taken from that original 1981 broadcast that they were again able to re-broadcast the play.
I have a bunch of BBC Agatha Christie dramatizations, but I don't recall hearing this one.
Thank you.
I thought I had them all and I didn't recall this one either. I think that the BBC keeps a stock of things like this and pulls them out and into the store and sells new to us Agatha Christie dramas when they need money. LOL
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I'm surprised they saved master tapes. They seem to "lose" a lot of them.
In the late-1970s-early-1980s, I remember there were a whole series of BBC cassette sets in the NY Public Library of well-known actors reading unabridged Agatha Christie novels (presumably edited together from serialized radio broadcasts). Vanessa Redgrave's reading of "Ten Little Indians" was pretty interesting, even though I'm not a big fan of audiobooks. I wonder if they've reissued that one on CD.
A few months back since recording the BBC is illegal in GB the BBC gave special immunity to the law for collectors who had old BBC recordings to submit the to the BBC and the Beeb would send you back an enhanced and reworked copy magically much better on a CD for your trouble instead of having you arrested. LOL That is where the bulk of the BBC4 Extra programs are coming from. ----------- R
Funny you should mention that.....
Years ago, Peter was in London on business and managed to rescue a whole slew of BBC tapes and discs from a trash bin behind Broadcasting House. He left them in England with a colleague because he was afraid that Customs would assume he stole the stuff, all clearly marked "Property of the British Broadcasting System" or some thing like that. Over the years, our friend has digitized some of the material and sent us the digital copies.
When the Beeb offered "amnesty" for recordings, our friend offered them their discarded tapes and discs. At first, they actually declined, claiming that the tapes must be fakes! They relented when our friend offered them a pristine digitized copy of a "lost" Tinniswood play, which they knew they had discarded.
Bob
That is absolutely hysterical. Thank you for sharing that. It is great. Nice to hear from you. ----------------- R
Wonderful, cheers!