The Governess By Evelyn Hervey

A BBC Radio Christmas murder mystery from based on a novel by noted mystery writer H.R.F. Keating writing under the pen name "Evelyn Hervey", dramatized by Barry Campbell and Michael Bakewell.

It should have been an ordinary Christmas in the Thackerton household.

That is, until somebody started stealing the Christmas sugar mice set out as treats. So the governess, Miss Harriet Unwin, decided to do something about it.

Setting a trap, she did indeed uncover the thief, who was a member of the household staff. However, to her amazement, nothing was done about it. When she decided to confront the thief and find out why they had not been immediately dismissed, she walked right into a murder scene ... that of grandfather Thackerton.

Now the whole family and household are under police investigation, headed by Sergeant Drewd, and Miss Unwin finds herself at the head of a whole list of suspects...and in line to perhaps become the latest in a list of victims!

Harriet Unwin ... Angela Pleasance
Sergeant Drewd ... James Bolam
William Thackerton ... Jack May
Arthur Thackerton ... Tony Mathews
Mrs. Arthur Thackerton ... Susan Jameson
Grandmother Thackerton ... Joan Matheson
Pelham ... James Holland
Joseph ... Steve Hodson
Vilkins ... Emily Richard
Hopkinson ... David Sinclair
Hannah ... Victoria Carling
Mrs. Breakspear ... Eva Stuart
John ... Stephen Tompkinson
Miss Rhoda Bond ... Marian Diamond
The Voice of the newspaper "Common Sense of the Times" ... John Rye
PC Wilson ... Anthony Jackson
PC Smithers ... Michael Troughton
Superintendent Heavytree ... Stephen Thorne

Directed by Jane Morgan

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 27 December 1987

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