Sleeping Murder

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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.

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Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple probes a woman's terrifying flashbacks to trap a murderer.

The amateur sleuth probes a woman's terrifying flashbacks to trap a murderer. Agatha Christie’s whodunit stars June Whitfield.

Amateur sleuth Jane Marple must solve the mystery surrounding a young woman's terrifying childhood memory - before the murderer is provoked to strike again...

June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie's whodunit was published posthumously in 1976 but is set in the 1930s.  

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield 
Dr James Kennedy …. Julian Glover 
Gwenda Reed …. Beth Chalmers 
Giles Reed …. Carl Prekopp 
Mrs Hengrave …. Hilda Schroder 
Edith …. Joan Littlewood 
Richard Erskine …. Derek Waring 
Aunt Alison …. Carolyn Pickles 
Walter Fane …. Ioan Meredith 
Jackie Afflick …. Michael N Harbour 
Inspector Last …. Ewan Bailey 

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001.

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