Set among a group of elderly people, the story begins with what appears to be an ordinary crime and ends up as a metaphysical mystery.

An anonymous caller repeatedly disturbs the elderly men and women with the message: "Remember you must die."

Muriel Spark's gloriously dark comedy about death.

Dame Lettie Colston ...... Patricia Hodge
Godfrey Colston ...... Jim Norton
Charmian Colston ...... Colette O'Neil
Mabel Pettigrew ...... Monica Dolan
Alec Warner ...... William Gaminara
Mrs Anthony ...... Kath Weare
Jean Taylor ...... Ellie Darvill
Henry Mortimer ...... Neil McCaul
Olive Mannering ...... Isabella Inchbald
Muriel ...... Georgie Glen

Adapted by Robin Brooks

Director: Gaynor Macfarlane.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Show less