AuthorAgatha Christie
NarratorFull Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 14
Duration2h 20m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Cosy Crime
Key StageKS4
PublisherBBC
VersionAbridged
The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in an unusual case after a member of an archaeological expedition is murdered at an ancient site in the Iraqi desert.
Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 36
Duration 1h 27m
John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs. Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the c...
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Poirot Series Book 19: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 19
Duration 6h 8m
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had thei...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 16
Duration 1h 26m
As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster - Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help, but doesn't say why. Her only specific mention is "the incident of the dog's ball". However, what intrigues Poirot i...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 2
Duration 4h 44m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millio...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 37
Duration 1h 27m
Following an otherwise-enjoyable literary luncheon, the celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is accosted by a particularly formidable woman who engages her in conversation about one of her many god-daughters, whom Ariadne hasn't seen since she was a child. She lands a bombshell with the question "What I want to know is this: did her mother kill...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 8
Duration 2h 14m
Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera, in the idyllic village of St Loo. Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot literally falls at the feet of a pretty, dark-haired girl and, much to Hastings' delight, insists that she join...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 13
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective with Simon Williams and Philip Jackson. Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to dea...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 2
Duration 6h
On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back... An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murde...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 15
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Peter Sallis
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 20
Duration 1h 20m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Peter Sallis as the great Belgian detective. Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to disobey, the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father's intentions are. D...
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