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Collection / Anthology, Drama / 5w, 9m
Agatha Christie
A colllection of three radio plays including a Poirot story for live performance comprising Personal Call, Yellow Iris, Butter in a Lordly Dish.
Personal Call sees James Brent haunted by his dead wife when he receives a mysterious telephone call, seemingly from beyond the grave. Yellow Iris marked Hercule Poirot's debut appearance on radio in which the famous detective is called to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes to solve an old case in which a cold-blooded killer escaped justice and slipped through his fingers. Butter in a Lordly Dish sees eminent prosecution barrister Sir Luke Enderby get his comeuppance in one of Christie's most gruesome and horrifying murders.
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PERSONAL CALL
FAY JAMES BRENT PAM BRENT MRS. LAMB EVAN CURTIS MARY CURTIS MR. ENDERBY INSPECTOR NARRACOTT OPERATOR STATION
YELLOW IRIS
HERCULE POIROT PAULINE WEATHERBY SEÑORA LOLA VALDEZ BARTON RUSSELL ANTHONY CHAPPELL STEPHEN CARTER WAITER CLOAKROOM ATTENDANT COMPÉRE
BUTTER IN A LORDLY DISH
“Radio owes much to Agatha Christie. For more than 60 years, her whodunnits have been shaped into afternoon plays, classic serials and Saturday-night dramas that defend the moral order, stimulate the grey cells and please a literate Radio 4 audience.” – Paul Donovan, Sunday Times
ON BREAKING CHARACTER Play by Play: The Theatrical Works of Agatha Christie 1 September 2025
Murder in the Studio Cathy Thomas 26 February 2019
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and, in many languages, outsold only by the Bible and Shake ...