The famous detective Hercule Poirot is at a weekend house party, the other guests include keen amateur detective Mr Satterthwaite and distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange. Death was also there, when an elderly clergyman dies while drinking a dry martini. Was there something else in the glass that shouldn't have been there? Is it due to natural causes ... or a murder?
Agatha Christie's 1935 novel, dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell
Cast:
Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Mr Satterthwaite …. George Cole
Sir Charles Cartwright …. Michael Cochrane
Sir Bartholomew Strange …. Clive Merrison
Lady Mary Lytton Gore …. Pauline Jamieson
Hermione 'Egg' Lytton Gore …. Beth Chalmers
Cynthia Dacres …. Paula Jacobs
Muriel Wills …. Elizabeth Proud
Oliver Manders …. Carl Prekopp
Miss Milray …. Helen Longworth
The Rev Babbington …. Peter Marinker
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.