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Miss Marple

Drama: Crime

June Whitfield stars as the iconic sleuth created by the queen of the whodunit.

June Whitfield stars as the iconic sleuth created by the queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie.

4.50 From Paddington

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Miss Marple: 4.50 From Paddington

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Miss Marple, 4.50 From Paddington

The spinster sleuth's friend spies a murder on a passing train, but where is the corpse?

The spinster's friend spies a murder on a train journey, but where is the corpse? Agatha Christie whodunit with June Whitfield.

Miss Marple's friend Mrs McGillicuddy arrives for a visit to St Mary Mead claiming she's just witnessed a murder during her steam railway journey from London. 

On another train running alongside her carriage, she explains how a blind flew up revealing a man slowly strangling a woman – until she slumped down. 

But next day, when there are no newspaper reports of a corpse, the spinster sleuth sets about her own murder investigation... 

Starring June Whitfield. 

Agatha Christie's whodunit, first published in 1957.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. 

Miss Marple    ......    June Whitfield 
Mrs McGillicuddy    ......    Joan Sims
Lucy Eyelesbarrow    ......    Susannah Harker 
Detective Inspector Craddock    ......    Ian Lavender 
Luther Crackenthorpe    ......    John Woodnutt 
Emma Crackenthorpe    ......    Janet Maw
Inspector Bacon    ......    Sean Baker
Dr Quimper    ......    Stephen Thorne 
Cedric    ......    Christopher Scott
Harold    ......    Keith Drinkel
Alfred    ......    Mark Bonner
Bryan    ......    Jim Wall
Alexander    ......    Jonathan Kitchens 
James    ......    Rory Jennings 
Mrs Kidder    ......    Ann Beach 
Madam Joilet    ......    Joanna Monro 
Martine    ......    Alice Arnold 
Miss Ellis    ......    Amanda Gordon 
Wimborne    ......    Lewis Jones 
Inspector Dessin    ......    Steve Hodson
Sergeant Wetherall    ......    Chris Pavlo
Sergeant Cornish    ......    Alex Lowe 

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997

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