June Whitfield as Miss Jane Marple on BBC Radio.
Miss Marple on BBC Radio
June Whitfield
First Uploaded 20 July 2001 Updated 23 November 2001

Created by Agatha Christie 
June Whitfield as Miss Marple
All stories feature June Whitfield as Miss Jane Marple,
and were dramatised by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams.
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Murder at The Vicarage
A Pocket Full of Rye
At Bertram's Hotel
The 4:50 From Paddington
A Caribbean Mystery
The Mirror Crack'd
Nemesis
The Body In the Library
A Murder Is Announced
The Moving Finger
They Do It With Mirrors
Sleeping Murder
The series consists of either 5 x 30 minute serials or single 90 minute plays, as noted.

Murder At the Vicarage


Broadcast in 5 parts. (Daily)
26 December - 30 December 1993

  Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone - even the vicar - wishes he were dead. And very soon he is - shot in the head in the vicar's own study.   Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer. 

BBC Radio Collection

featuring Francis Matthews as Rev. Leonard Clement, Richard Todd as Colonel Melchett, Nigel Davenport as  Dr. Haydock, Imelda Staunton as Griselda Clement, & John Baddeley as Insp. Slack.

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A Pocket Full of Rye

Broadcast - The Saturday Playhouse
11 February 1995

  Wealthy financier Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket followed in quick succession by a woman dying while eating bread and honey and a maid killed in her garden. Jane Marple senses the murderer is dispatching his victims on the basis of a children's nursery rhyme and finds herself enrneshed in one of the strangest cases of her life.

BBC Radio Collection

featuring Nicky Henson as Inspector Neele, & Derek Waring as Rex Fortescue.

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At Bertram's Hotel

Broadcast in 5 parts. (Daily)
25 December - 29 December 1995

  Jane Marple, is being treated to a few days holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram's Hotel -  a dignified, unostentatious establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. It is a place where sedate upper-class ladies, retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age.
  But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer. Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate eminently respectable people staying there.           

BBC Radio Collection

featuring Frederick Jaeger as Chief Inspector Davy, Siân Phillips as Bess Sedgwick, Maurice Denham as Canon Pennyfather & Patrick Allen  as Sir Ronald Graves

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The 4:50 From Paddington

Broadcast - The Saturday Playhouse
29 March 1997
  Elspeth McGillicuddy is down from Scotland for a holiday and boards the 4.50 train from Paddington Station to visit her friend, Miss Marple. During the journey, another train pulls alongside and through the window Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a man strangling a woman. She reports what she's seen, yet no one takes any notice as there is no report of a murder. Only Miss Marple believes her and sets about first uncovering the murder, and then who did it.
BBC Radio Collection

featuring Joan Sims as Mrs. McGillicuddy, Susannah Harker as Lucy Eyelesbarrow, Ian Lavender as Det. Inspector Craddock, John Woodnutt as Luther Crackenthorpe & Janet Maw as Emma Crackenthorpe.

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A Caribbean Mystery

Broadcast in 5 parts. (Weekly)
30 October  - 27 November 1997

  The tiny Caribbean island of St. Honoré is a tropical paradise. But for Miss Marple, enjoying a well earned rest from her busy life in the village of St. Mary Mead, it is a place where nothing ever seems to happen. Until old Major Palgrave tells her the strange story of a suspected double murderer.
  As rumours begin to circulate, the elderly sleuth is not alone in suspecting things are not as they seem. And when a death that is not indisputably murder occurs, Miss Marple finds an unlikely ally in the cantankerous Mr. Rafiel...

BBC Radio Collection

featuring Windsor Davies as Major Palgrave & George A. Cooper as Mr Rafiel.

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The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

Broadcast - Agatha Christie Special
29 August 1998

  One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? Marina's frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something          horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Miss Marple conducted a very different investigation - into human nature. 

HarperCollins

featuring Ian Lavender, as Chief Inspector Craddock Gayle Hunnicutt as Marina Gregg, James Laurenson as Jason Rudd & Pauline Jameson as Dolly Bantry.

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Nemesis

Broadcast in 5 parts. (Weekly)
9 November - 7 December 1998

   Miss Marple is saddened to hear of the death of Mr Rafiel, the financier who had been her ally in solving a murder on the Caribbean island of St. Honoré. She is then surprised to be summoned by the dead man's solicitor with a strange request. Miss Marple is set a task, find out if a crime has been committed and if so, by whom.

George A. Cooper as Mr Rafiel, David Swift as Professor Wanstead, Louie Ramsay as Lavinia Glynne, Thelma Barlow as Anthea Bradbury-Scott, Mary Wimbush as Clotilde Bradbury-Scott, Jill Balcon as Miss Temple & Desmond Llewelyn as Archdeacon Brabazon.

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The Body In the Library
Broadcast - The Saturday Play
22 May 1999

  It's seven in the morning. The Bantry's wake to find the body pf a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy make-up, which is smeared across her distorted cheeks. The respectable Bantry's invite Jane Marple to solve the mystery - before tongues start to wag.

HarperCollins

featuring Richard Todd as Colonel Melchett, Pauline Jameson as Dolly Bantry, Jack Watling as Colonel Bantry, Graham Crowden as Sir Henry Clithering & John Baddeley as Insp. Slack.

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A Murder Is Announced
Broadcast in 5 parts. (Weekly)
9 August - 6 September 1999

  'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29, at Little Paddocks, at 6.30pm. Friends please accept this, the only intimation' 
  Nestled amongst the usual notices about dogs for sale and appeals for domestic help, the startling entry in the personal column of the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette has the entire village agog with curiosity. Is it a game? And who is meant to attend? 
  The mistress of Little Paddocks, Letitia Blacklock, is also taken completely by surprise. Suspecting her nephew of a practical joke, she's sure of one thing: half the village will be converging on the house expecting a glass of sherry. 
  Sure enough, the evening sees a crowd of residents standing expectantly in the drawing-room. Then the clock strikes the half-hour, the lights go out, and three gunshots ring out in the dark.       BBC Radio Collection

Featuring Ian Lavender as Det. Inspector Craddock, Graham Crowden as Sir Henry Clithering, Sarah Lawson as Letty Blacklock, Judy Cornwell as Dora Bunner, Jack Hedley as Colonel Easterbrook & Joanna McCallum as Laura Easterbrook.

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The Moving Finger
Broadcast - The Saturday Play
5 May 2001

  A recuperative stay in the quiet town of Lymstock holds more in store than Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna bargained for. When an anonymous letter arrives, accusing them of impropriety, they soon discover that a number of other town residents have been similarly harrassed. Suspicion is rife, and matters are brought to a head by the suicide of one of the letters' recipients. Can Miss Marple's arrival in Lymstock cast light on the unpleasant matter?

BBC Radio Collection

Featuring Nicholas Boulton, (Jerry Burton), Clare Corbett (Joanna Burton), Annabelle Dowler (Megan Hunter), Patricia Scott (Mrs Dane Calthorp), Hugh Dickson (Mr Symmington), Elizabeth Bell (Aimee Griffith) & Sian Probert (Superintendent Nash).

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They Do It With Mirrors
Broadcast in 5 parts (Weekly)
23 July 2001 - 20 August 2001

Miss Marple is invited to stay with an old school friend at the manor house she runs with her husband as a school for delinquent boys. But it is not just a social visit.

With Ursula Howells, Jill Balcon and Peter Howell.

Information from BBC Online Schedules
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Sleeping Murder

Broadcast - The Saturday Play
8 December 2001

 Young Gwenda Reed arrives in England from New Zealand, travelling ahead of her husband and charged with the task of finding just the right place for them to make their home. Gwenda soon chances upon the village of Dillmouth and a house with immediate appeal to her - but is her memory playing tricks on her, or does she really know exactly how the interior used to look? Miss Marple realises that an unsolved murder is behind Gwenda's apparent intuition. little does she suspect that the murderer will strike again...

BBC Radio Collection

Featuring Julian Glover (Dr Kennedy), Beth Chalmers (Gwenda Reed), Carl Prekopp (Giles Reed), Hilda Schroder (Mrs Hengrave), Caroline Pickles (Aunt Alison/Mrs Erskine), Joan Littlewood (Edith) & Derek Waring (Richard Erskine).

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