Murder on the Orient Express

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Hercule Poirot - Murder on the Orient Express

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Time is against the Belgian sleuth as he battles to unmask the murderer.

Time is against Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot as he battles to unmask the murderer. Stars John Moffatt and Andre Maranne.

Time is against Belgian sleuth, as he battles to unmask the murderer aboard the Orient Express. 

John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot in the conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunnit.    

From the book published in 1934 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell 

Hercule Poirot    ......    John Moffatt
Monsieur Bouc    ......    Andre Maranne 
Dr Constantine    ......    Peter Polycarpou
Masterman    ......    Desmond Llewelyn 
Pierre Michel    ......    Frank Windsor  
Princess Dragmiroff    ......    Sian Phillips 
Mrs Hubbard    ......    Sylvia Syms 
Miss Debenham    ......    Francesca Annis 
Count Andrenyi    ......    David Thorpe 
Countess Andrenyi    ......    Siriol Jenkins
Colonel Arbuthnot    ......     Stephen Hodson
Foscarelli    ......    Frank Coda 
Miss Ohlsson    ......    Kate Binchy
MacQueen    ......    James Telfer
Fraulein Schmidt    ......    Linda Polan 

Music composed and played by Michael Haslam 

Director Enyd Williams. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1993.

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

Hercule Poirot is on a train which drives into a snow-drift, when a passenger in his car is found murdered.

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