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The Real Mystery of Marie Roget

Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget

Drama: Horror & Supernatural

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget

On his death bead, Edgar Allan Poe finds a solution to a real murder that obsessed him.

Obsessed by a woman's unsolved murder, Edgar Allan Poe gets a disturbing solution on his last night on Earth. Stars Ed Bishop.

American writer Edgar Allan Poe was obsessed by the unsolved murder of a woman, Mary Rogers, who he called "Marie Roget" in his fictionalised version of the case.
 
On his last night on earth, Poe has a visitor with a disturbing solution as to who might have killed her.
 
Peter Mackie's imaginary drama stars Ed Bishop as Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe    ......    Ed Bishop 
Dupin    ......    Terry Molloy
Tom White    ......    Hu Pryce  
Muddy    ......    Hedli Niklaus
Mary Rogers    ......    Marlena Mackey
Doctor    ......    Geoff Serle
Nurse    ......    Carina Wyeth 

Other parts played by the cast. 
 
Director: Philip Martin
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988

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