
Hercule Poirot - Murder in the Mews
Poirot investigates a young woman's death on Guy Fawkes night. Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars Richard Williams. From 1955.
A young woman is found dead in her flat, the day after Guy Fawkes night.
But did she die by her own hand or someone else's?
Inspector Japp calls for the assistance of Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot.
This 1955 broadcast was long thought lost, but a tape was rediscovered in the BBC archive in 2015.
Hercule Poirot .... Richard Williams
Freddie Hogg .... Ian Whittaker
Chief Inspector Japp .... Jack Melford
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
Dramatised by Anthony Aspinall from a short-story first published in Woman's Journal in 1936.
It later appeared in a book collection in 1937.
Producer: David H Godfrey
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1955.
On radio
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