Murder on the Orient Express

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Hercule Poirot

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Episode 1: 1. Departure

Hercule Poirot - Murder on the Orient Express

1. Departure

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Hercule Poirot's train departs, but one passenger aboard will never finish the journey.

Hercule Poirot's train departs, but one passenger will never finish the journey. Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars John Moffatt.

A train departs, but one person aboard the Orient Express is destined never to arrive. 

Speeding through the snowy European landscape, a bizarre and terrible murder brings the train to an abrupt halt. 

The high-class carriages are packed with passengers and one of them - Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot - soon realises the challenge that awaits him... 

Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.

From the book published in 1934.

Dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell 

Hercule Poirot    ......    John Moffatt
Princess Dragmiroff    ......    Sian Phillips 
Miss Debenham    ......    Francesca Annis 
Mr Ratchett    ......    Joss Ackland 
Pierre Michel    ......    Frank Windsor  
Mrs Hubbard    ......    Sylvia Syms 
Masterman    ......    Desmond Llewelyn 
Monsieur Bouc    ......    Andre Maranne 
Colonel Arbuthnot    ......     Stephen Hodson
MacQueen    ......    James Telfer
Miss Ohlsson    ......    Kate Binchy
Foscarelli    ......    Frank Coda 
Hardman    ......    John Church
Count Andrenyi    ......    David Thorpe 
Countess Andrenyi    ......    Siriol Jenkins
Dr Constantine    ......    Peter Polycarpou
The Taurus Express Guard    ......    Vic Tablian 
The Hotel Clerk    ......    Kevork Malikyan 

Pianist: Michael Haslam 

Director Enyd Williams. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992.

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Hercule Poirot's train drives into a snow-drift, when a passenger is found murdered.

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