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A Pocket Full of Rye

Miss Marple suspects a nursery rhyme is the key to a set of gruesome murders. Agatha Christie mystery starring June Whitfield.

There's only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financier.

Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangest cases of her life.

Agatha Christie's whodunit.

Starring June Whitfield as Miss Jane Marple.

From the book first published in 1953 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield
Inspector Neele …. Nicky Henson
Rex Fortescue …. Derek Waring
Percival …. Peter Yapp
Jennifer …. Natasha Pyne
Lance …. Ian Masters
Patricia …. Annabel Mullion
Elaine …. Deborah Berlin
Adele …. Becky Hindley
Miss Dove …. Kristin Milward
Miss Ramsbottom …. Margaret Ward
Mrs Mackenzie …. Charlotte Mitchell
Gladys …. Claire Mackie
Crump …. Don McCorkindale
Mrs Crump …. Margaret John
Sergeant Hay …. Joshua Towb
Miss Grosvenor …. Jilly Bond
Dr Bernsdorff …. George Parsons
Vivian Dubois …. Michael Tudor Barnes
Gerald Wright …. Oliver Senton
Kitty …. Clare Heyhoe

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

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