1. Cornwall

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The famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is at a weekend house party on a clifftop in Cornwall, thrown by the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright. As the welcoming cocktail party gets underway, an elderly clergyman dies while drinking a dry martini. Was the vermouth/gin ratio of the cocktail so poorly mixed that it offended his delicate palate? Or was there something else in the glass that shouldn't have been there..? Starring John Moffatt. Agatha Christie's 1935 whodunnit novel. Dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt Mr Satterthwaite …. George Cole Sir Charles Cartwright …. Michael Cochrane Sir Bartholomew Strange …. Clive Merrison Lady Mary Lytton Gore …. Pauline Jamieson Hermione 'Egg' Lytton Gore …. Beth Chalmers Cynthia Dacres …. Paula Jacobs Muriel Wills …. Elizabeth Proud Oliver Manders …. Carl Prekopp Miss Milray …. Helen Longworth The Rev Babbington …. Peter Marinker Director: Enyd Williams First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.