Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

Police detective Inspector Japp was played by Philip Jackson in The ABC Murders, Death In The Clouds, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, and The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Norman Jones in Lord Edgware Dies, and Bryan Pringle in Peril at End House. Ĭaptain Hastings, Poirot's companion in several stories, was played by Simon Williams in Lord Edgware Dies, The ABC Murders, Peril at End House, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and Dumb Witness, and Jeremy Clyde in Murder on the Links. The main character, private detective Hercule Poirot, appears in each production and was played by John Moffatt in all the dramatisations except the first two, in which he was played by Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis respectively. According to a press release in December 2020, Hercule Poirot episodes are one of the most requested programmes on BBC Sounds alongside Miss Marple. Īdaptations in the series were released on CD and are regularly rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

For Williams's first production, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, Peter Sallis played Poirot, but she recalled in The Radio Detectives that 'I enjoyed very much working with Peter Sallis.but he's not a very happy person doing accents so we decided to leave it there.' She subsequently cast John Moffatt, a member of the Radio Drama Company, in the role and he reprised the part for a further 25 productions between 19. Īfter the first adaptation, the six episode The Mystery of the Blue Train of 1985 (directed by David Johnston), all following productions were directed and produced by Enyd Williams. The series consists of 27 full cast radio adaptations of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot stories, adapted by Michael Bakewell and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. With the exception of the first two adaptations, the series stars John Moffatt as Poirot. Hercule Poirot is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and short stories adapted by Michael Bakewell, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 19.

BBC Radio adaptation of Agatha Christie's Poirot storiesĪdapted from the works of Agatha ChristieĢ9 December 1985 ( ) – 27 August 2007 ( )

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie