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Radio Play, Melodrama  /  5w, 9m

Agatha Christie

A chilling radio play in one act for live performance.

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 9m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

James Brent receives a chilling telephone call seemingly from beyond the grave. His dead wife, Fay, is waiting for him at the very place she met her grisly end. At his new wife’s insistence, they go to meet her as requested and in the process discover a terrifying and disturbing truth.   

Part of the live radio triple bill Murder in the Studio which also includes Butter in a Lordly Dish and Yellow Iris. 


History

The play was first broadcast on the BBC Radio Light Programme in 1954 and has been performed live on stage as part of an evening of Christie radio plays in the United Kingdom, Australia, the USA and China.

Performing Groups
FAY
JAMES BRENT
PAM BRENT
MRS. LAMB
EVAN CURTIS
MARY CURTIS
MR. ENDERBY
INSPECTOR NARRACOTT
OPERATOR
STATION ANNOUNCER
1st PORTER
2nd PORTER
WOMAN
MAN
  • Time Period 1950s
  • Setting The action moves from the living room of James Brent to a platform at Newton Abbot station.
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration 30 minutes

Media

REVIEWS

"The detective story, against all probability, seems to be coming back to radio." - Frederick Laws, The Listener, reviewing the 1960 BBC Radio broadcast

ON BREAKING CHARACTER

Agatha Christie's Radio and Television Plays
Chris Chan
April 16, 2019

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £40 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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 ...

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