Agatha Christie Death In The Clouds

Agatha Christie's Death in the Clouds

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

It is 1935 and Hercule Poirot's horror of flying is compounded when a fellow passenger on a cross-channel aeroplane is found murdered.

Poirot: John Moffatt

Lady Horbury: Carolyn Jones

Chief Insp Japp: Philip Jackson

Fournier: Geoffrey Whitehead

Daniel: Murray Melvin

Jane: Teresa Gallagher

Norman: Ben Crowe

Jean: Andrew Harrison

Dr Bryant: Bruce Purchase

Elise: Liza Sadovy

Anne: Priyanga Elan

Steward/Clerk: Stephen Critchlow

Director: Enyd Williams

The Saturday Play:

Sat 3rd May 2003

14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

Hercule Poirot hates flying, so it's almost a welcome diversion when one of his fellow passengers on a cross-channel flight is murdered. Cue 90 minutes during which you will suspect every one and have your brain cells mixed into a variety of cerebral kedgeree by the number of red herrings on offer, until the complex case is solved. All I will say is, never stay on a plane that's also carrying a wasp! (Jane Anderson, radio editor)