More of John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio.
Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio
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First Upload July 31 2001 Update December 12 2003

Created by Agatha Christie 
John Moffatt
All stories (this page) feature John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot,
and were dramatised by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams.
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Five Little Pigs
Murder On Mesopotamia
Death On the Nile
Evil Under the Sun
After the Funeral
The ABC Murders
Peril At End House
Appointment With Death
Cards On the Table
Three Act Tragedy
Death In the Clouds
Taken at the Flood
The series consists of either 5 x 30 minute serials or single 90 minute plays, as noted.

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Five Little Pigs

Broadcast - Saturday Night Theatre
18 June 1994

  A sixteen-year-old murder, with the apparent killer convicted and long dead, is a formidable challenge for the remarkable Poirot, especially with nothing to go on except five suspects who fit strangely into the pattern of a child's nursery rhyme.. 

BBC Radio Collection

featuring Graham Crowden (Meredith Blake), Derek Waring (Philip Blake), Carmel McSharry (Miss Williams), Suzy Aitchison (Elsa Greer), & Charlotte Attenborough (Angela).

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Murder In Mesopotamia
Broadcast in 5 parts. (Daily)
26 December 1994 - 30 December 1994

  Amy Leatheran has never felt the lure of the mysterious East. But when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqui desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, the situation proves stranger than she could ever have imagined. Bizarre visions & nervous terror culminate in murder.
                BBC Radio Collection

featuring William Franklyn (Dr Leidner), Dorothy Tutin (Louise Leidner), Becky Hindley (Amy Leatheran), Elizabeth Spriggs (Miss Johnson), Norman Rodway (Dr Reilly), Richard Todd (Captain Maitland) & John Hartley (Father Lavingny).

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Death On the Nile
Broadcast in 5 parts. (Weekly)
2 January - 30 January 1997

  Linnet Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth and a devoted husband, she has everything anyone could wish for. But as the couple set out on a honeymoon cruise down the Nile, she begins to fear for her life. At first the fears seem groundless, but later she is murdered.

BBC Radio Collection

featuring Donald Sinden (Colonel Race), Amanda Barton-Chapple (Jacqueline de Bellefort), Robert Daws (Simon Doyle), Elaine Pike (Linnet Ridgeway), Rosemary Leach (Mrs Allerton), Irene Sutcliffe (Miss Van Schuyler), Stratford Johns (Pennington), Teresa Gallagher (Cornelia), & Ed Bishop (Rockford).

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Evil Under the Sun
Broadcast in 5 parts. (Weekly)
6 April 1998 - 4 May 1998

  Hercule Poirot allows himself to be tempted by a holiday at the English seaside and almost immediately senses the presence of evil on Smugglers' Island, and soon Poirot is investigating the murder of Arlena Marshall.

featuring George Baker (Colonel Weston), Fiona Fullerton (Arlena Marshall), Robin Ellis (Captain Marshall), Lindsey Fawcett (Linda Marshall), Sabina Franklyn (Rosamund Darnley), Iain Glen (Patrick Redfern), Susannah Corbett (Christine Redfern), Joan Littlewood (Miss Brewster) & Wendy Craig (Mrs Gardener).

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After the Funeral
Broadcast - The Saturday Play
28 August 1999

  Following the interment of Richard Abernethie, his sister Cora blurts out that he was surely murdered. The next day, she is found dead.

BBC Online

featuring Frank Thornton (Mr Entwhistle) & John Baddeley (Inspector Morton). 

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The ABC Murders
Broadcast - The Saturday Play
22 April 2000

  The arrival of an anonymous letter telling Hercule Poirot to look out for Andover on the 21st of the month and signed ``Yours ABC,'' spells the beginning of one of the Belgian sleuth's most enigmatic and disturbing cases.

BBC Online

featuring Simon Williams (Captain Hastings) &  Philip Jackson (Inspector Japp).
 

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Peril At End House
Broadcast in 5 parts. (Weekly)
20 November - 18 December 2000

  Poirot and Hastings are holidaying in the Cornish village of St. Loo. They meet Miss Nick Buckley, owner of the remote and lonely End House. She tells that she enjoys living there, despite the fact that she has had three near fatal accidents within a few days. When a fourth near fatal accident occurs in their presence, Poirot & Hastings become involved.

featuring Simon Williams (Captain Hastings), Bryan Pringle (Inspector Japp), Gemma Saunders (Nick Buckley), Suzanna Hamilton (Frederica Rice), Terence Edmond (Mr Croft), Richenda Carey (Mrs Croft), Stephen Critchlow (Charles Vyse) & Sean Arnold (Jimmy Lazarus).

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Appointment With Death
Broadcast - The Saturday Play
25 August 2001 

  Through a hotel window in the Red Rose city of Petra, ominous words are heard, and their subject is soon murdered.

BBC Online

featuring Jennie Stoller (Miss Pierce), Miriam Karlin (Mrs Boynton), Jill Balcon (Lady Westholme), Connie Walker (Sarah) & John Woodnutt (Col. Carbury).

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Cards On the Table
Broadcast - The Saturday Play
4 May 2002 

  The eccentric socialite Mr Shaitana has a cruelly twisted sense of amusement, one he displays when he invites Hercule Poirot to a dinner party. There, the great Belgian detective is joined by three other celebrities with expert knowledge of the criminal world: novelist Ariadne Oliver, undercover agent Colonel Race, and Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard. They are to meet Mr Shaitana's personal black museum, a collection of murderers who have killed and got away with it. But during a game of bridge following dinner, the host's little entertainment goes horribly wrong, as one of the murderers strikes again. 

BBC Radio 4 - What's On

featuring Christopher Godwin (Mr. Shaitana), Stephanie Cole (Ariadne Oliver), Donald Sinden (Colonel Race), Ioan Meredith (Superintendent Battle) & Mary Wimbush (Mrs. Lorrimer).

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Three Act Tragedy

Broadcast in 5 parts. (Weekly)
8 July - 19 August 2002

  Hercule Poirot, his acquaintance the keen amateur detective Mr Satterthwaite and the distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange are amongst the guests at a weekend party being given by the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright, at his cliff top house in Cornwall. On the first evening, soon after Poirot's arrival, there is a cocktail party. And as too often happens when Poirot is present,somebody dies. But this time, it's an elderly clergyman, who's only had a sip of dry martini. Natural causes - or murder?

BBC Radio 4 - What's On

featuring George Cole (Mr Satterthwaite), Michael Cochrane (Sir Charles Cartwright), Clive Merrison (Sir Bartholomew Strange).

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Death In The Clouds

Broadcast - The Saturday Play
3 May 2003

  Hercule Poirot's horror of flying is compounded when a fellow passenger on a cross-channel aeroplane is found murdered.

BBC Online

featuring Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector Japp), Geoffrey Whitehead (Monsieur Fournier), Murray Melvin (Daniel Clancy), Teresa Gallagher (Jane Grey) & Carolyn Jones (Lady Horbury).

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Taken at the Flood

Broadcast  in 5 parts. (Weekly)
13 October - 10 November 2003

  It's London in the 1940s and Poirot learns of the mysterious death of Gordon Cloade, killed in a London air raid. His vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen but she begins to fear for her life, such is the greed of Cloade's relatives for his money. The prospects for the Cloades improve when they discover Rosaleen had a previous husband who perished mysteriously in Africa. Then a mysterious stranger appears in the village, saying that he has something to communicate to her, but the following morning he is found dead. Was he, in fact, her husband?.

BBC Worldwide

featuring Robert Lang (Superintendent Spence), Derek Waring (Major Porter), Virginia Mckenna (Adela Marchmont), Susannah Corbett (Lynn Marchmont), Caroline Wildi (Frances Cloade) Andrew Sachs (Jeremy Cloade), Elizabeth Proud (Kathie Cloade), Ioan Meridith (Lionel Cloade), Ifan Meredith (Rowley Cloade), Fritha Goodey (Rosaleen Cloade), Tom George (David Hunter) & Mary Wimbush (Mrs Leadbetter).

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