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Sleeping Murder

The amateur sleuth probes a woman's terrifying flashbacks to trap a murderer. Agatha Christie’s whodunit stars June Whitfield.

Amateur sleuth Jane Marple must solve the mystery surrounding a young woman's terrifying childhood memory - before the murderer is provoked to strike again...

June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie's whodunit was published posthumously in 1976 but is set in the 1930s.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield
Dr James Kennedy …. Julian Glover
Gwenda Reed …. Beth Chalmers
Giles Reed …. Carl Prekopp
Mrs Hengrave …. Hilda Schroder
Edith …. Joan Littlewood
Richard Erskine …. Derek Waring
Aunt Alison …. Carolyn Pickles
Walter Fane …. Ioan Meredith
Jackie Afflick …. Michael N Harbour
Inspector Last …. Ewan Bailey

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 7 May 202301:00
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