A Murder is Announced

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Whodunnits: Miss Marple - A Murder Is Announced: Episode 1

June Whitfield as Miss Marple

Episode 1

Miss Marple - A Murder Is Announced

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The residents of Chipping Cleghorn misinterpret a murderous invitation.

The residents of Chipping Cleghorn misinterpret a murderous invitation. Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars June Whitfield.

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Miss Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an ad in the local gazette which reads: 

'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm'.

As the time approaches, the crowds gather at Little Paddocks and then the lights go out. 

Surely it must be a hoax...? 

Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars June Whitfield as the deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. 

From the book first published in 1950.

Dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell.  

Miss Marple    ......    June Whitfield
Inspector Craddock    ......    Ian Lavender
Sir Henry Clithering    ......    Graham Crowden
Letty Blacklock    ......    Sarah Lawson
Dora Bunner    ......    Judy Cornwell 
Patrick Simmons    ......    Jamie Glover
Miss Hinchliffe    ......    Elizabeth Bell
Colonel Easterbrook    ......    Jack Hedley 
Laura Easterbrook    ......    Joanna McCallum
Rev Julian Harmon    ......    Ioan Meredith
Bunch Harmon    ......    Molly Gaisford
Mitzi    ......    Jenny Funnell
Miss Murgatroyd    ......    Alice Arnold

Director: Enyd Williams 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1999.

Whodunnits: Miss Marple - A Murder Is Announced

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The spinster sleuth visits Chipping Cleghorn just as a strange notice appears in the paper

Agatha Christie's 50th book, as her famed spinster sleuth finds herself in the village of Chipping Cleghorn just as a strange notice appears in the paper. Stars June Whitfield.

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