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Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is at a party as a clergyman dies sipping a cocktail. Agatha Christie whodunnit with John Moffatt.

The famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is at a weekend house party on a clifftop in Cornwall, thrown by the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright.

As the welcoming cocktail party gets underway, an elderly clergyman dies while drinking a dry martini.

Was the vermouth/gin ratio of the cocktail so poorly mixed that it offended his delicate palate?

Or was there something else in the glass that shouldn't have been there..?

Starring John Moffatt.

Agatha Christie's 1935 whodunnit novel.

Dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell

Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Mr Satterthwaite …. George Cole
Sir Charles Cartwright …. Michael Cochrane
Sir Bartholomew Strange …. Clive Merrison
Lady Mary Lytton Gore …. Pauline Jamieson
Hermione 'Egg' Lytton Gore …. Beth Chalmers
Cynthia Dacres …. Paula Jacobs
Muriel Wills …. Elizabeth Proud
Oliver Manders …. Carl Prekopp
Miss Milray …. Helen Longworth
The Rev Babbington …. Peter Marinker

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 4 in July 2002.

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 5 Dec 2023 01:30

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