Miss Marple (radio series) explained

Miss Marple
Format:	Radio drama
Country:	United Kingdom
Home Station:	BBC Radio 4
Starring:	June Whitfield
Director:	Enyd Williams (1993–2001) Gemma Jenkins (2015)

Miss Marple is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories. The original series consisted of adaptations of all twelve Miss Marple novels, dramatised by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams. They were broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1993 and 2001 and starred June Whitfield as Miss Marple.^[1]

Subsequently, adaptations of three Miss Marple short stories (again starring Whitfield) were broadcast under the collective title Miss Marple's Final Cases weekly 16–30 September 2015. These were adapted by Joy Wilkinson and directed by Gemma Jenkins.^[2]

List of adaptations

	Title	First broadcast	Series
1	The Murder at the Vicarage	26–30 December 1993 (5 episodes)^[3]
2	A Pocket Full of Rye	11 February 1995^[4]	Saturday Playhouse
3	At Bertram's Hotel	25–29 December 1995 (5 episodes)^[5]
4	4.50 from Paddington	29 March 1997^[6]	Saturday Playhouse
5	A Caribbean Mystery	30 October – 27 November 1997 (5 episodes)^[7]	rowspan="3"
6	The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side	29 August 1998^[8]
7	Nemesis	9 November – 7 December 1998 (5 episodes)^[9]
8	The Body in the Library	22 May 1999^[10]	The Saturday Play
9	A Murder Is Announced	9 August – 6 September 1999 (5 episodes)^[11]
10	The Moving Finger	5 May 2001^[12]	The Saturday Play
11	They Do It with Mirrors	23 July 2001 – 20 August 2001 (5 episodes)^[13]
12	Sleeping Murder	8 December 2001^[14]	The Saturday Play
13	"Tape-Measure Murder"	16 September 2015^[15]	Miss Marple's Final Cases^[16]
14	"The Case of the Perfect Maid"	23 September 2015^[17]
15	"Sanctuary"	30 September 2015^[18]

See also

• Hercule Poirot (radio series)
• Lord Peter Wimsey (radio series)
• Sherlock Holmes (1989 radio series)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC Radio 4 Extra – Miss Marple. BBC.
2. Web site: Miss Marple's Final Cases. 30 July 2020. BBC Programmes.
3. Web site: The Murder at the Vicarage. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
4. Web site: A Pocket Full of Rye. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
5. Web site: At Bertram's Hotel. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
6. Web site: 4.50 from Paddington. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
7. Web site: A Caribbean Mystery. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
8. Web site: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
9. Web site: Nemesis. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
10. Web site: The Body in the Library. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
11. Web site: A Murder Is Announced. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
12. Web site: The Moving Finger. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
13. Web site: They Do It with Mirrors. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
14. Web site: Sleeping Murder. BBC Programme Index. 30 July 2020.
15. Web site: Tape-Measure Murder. 23 March 2022. BBC Radio 4.
16. Web site: Miss Marple's Final Cases. 23 March 2022. BBC Radio 4.
17. Web site: The Case of the Perfect Maid. 23 March 2022. BBC Radio 4.
18. Web site: Sanctuary. 23 March 2022. BBC Radio 4.